COMMENTARY | Undercounting these communities means less representation and ultimately fewer services Data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau may not seem political or imminently relevant to your life, but I can assure you it is both. The census helps dic ...
5 Apr 2019 - Emily McLain
COMMENTARY | Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning movie highlights the struggle of the profession Mexico City, 1970. Cleo’s alarm sounds very early in the morning. She gets up and climbs down the stairs from her rooftop room in the upper-middle-class house wher ...
1 Mar 2019 - Karina Patricio... and Arely Cruz-Santiago
More than 13 million children are refugees, but we rarely hear from them. Nadine Labaki is changing that with 'Capharnaüm.' Nadine Labaki loves watching kids on screen. “They make the most sense sometimes,” said the award-winning Lebanese direct ...
22 Feb 2019 - Aimee Knight
COMMENTARY | We showed up with love at the fence as thousands of asylum seekers await their chance to enter the U.S. Dec. 10, the 70th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I along with 11 others in the AF ...
28 Dec 2018 - Pat Rumer
At the height of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, commercial ships rushed to the rescue, often traumatizing sailors HAMBURG, Germany – It was a full-blown distress call that the German Shipowners’ Association issued to politicians. Between 2014 an ...
28 Dec 2018 - Birgit Müller and Jonas Füllner
Some refugees who moved here because of the short waitlist for housing aid have been unable to transfer their vouchers elsewhere as quickly as they had hoped Ontario, Ore., was never really supposed to be home – at least not for many of the city’s recentl ...
26 Oct 2018 - Emilly Prado
Ekram Ahmed continues to embrace a life of independence in the face of adversity Ekram Ahmed spent many years living in fear and with a ferocious sense of self. Her parents lived in Sudan before she was born, but a military coup led by Omar al-Bashir in ...
26 Oct 2018 - Emilly Prado
Abdikadir Abdi helps a burgeoning Somali community in Ontario, Oregon Abdikadir Abdi’s childhood looked strikingly different from what his own children and the Somali refugee community’s children experience in the Pacific Northwest today. Abdi was born i ...
26 Oct 2018 - Emilly Prado
Former lawmaker Rocky Barilla responds to sheriffs’ criticism, says police helped draft the "non-controversial" legislation 31 years ago Sixteen Oregon sheriffs signed a letter in August urging Oregonians to vote yes on Ballot Measure 105 to rep ...
19 Oct 2018 - Emily Green
COMMENTARY | Voters face a choice: maintain Oregon's sanctuary status or further deepen racial disparities in our criminal justice system Often when we think about the disparities in our criminal justice system, we think about people who are arrested ...
12 Oct 2018 - Shannon Wight