SUNDAY | MAY 19, 2013
What Matters Today: Giving Immigrant Youth a Voice
In 2012, Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European & Latino Immigrants of Illinois (CAAAELII) Executive Director Dale Asis told me that Rev. Walter “Slim” Coleman of Centro Sin Fronteras was doing a new project “4+1=20 Afterschool Program.” They were concentrating on health issues and high school students in nearby Benito Juarez High School in [...]
Caroline Topeé grew up in a financially stable family and took her financial security for granted. Then came the day when she realized that, to protect her daughter, she needed to leave her abusive marriage. Caroline took on several jobs just to stay afloat, which had repercussions for her daughter and their relationship. Parent Voices, [...]
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After Sept. 11, 2001, Pramila Jayapal launched what is now OneAmerica to address hate crimes and discrimination aimed at Muslims, Arabs and South Asians. Today, the group is the largest immigrant advocacy organization in Washington state – and Jayapal continues her social justice work. Catherine Eusebio, a social justice fellow at Asian American/Pacific Islanders [...]
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Chicago-area policymakers should speed up the prosecution of perpetrators of “every form of sexual violence” – particularly when it comes to cases involving Latinas – and service providers should hire more bilingual professionals, a community organization is recommending in a new report. Mujeres Latinas en Acción, which works with Latinas, released its report on [...]
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I was sitting at the bar in el Hueso del Fraile, a coffee shop in downtown Brownsville in Texas. Laura, the owner, was working with a younger friend of hers putting together sandwiches. My friend from the ACLU was going to show a film (“Two Americans“) later that evening, and the two women were [...]
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When Wahid Rashad, 65, sees young people in Chicago chugging bottles of sugary drinks and chomping on fluorescent-orange snacks, he thinks: “That’s garbage. It doesn’t enhance the brain and energy level.” Rashad sells apples, mangoes, papayas and peppers from a produce cart in the city’s Uptown neighborhood. Among the comments he hears from customers since [...]
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“Raising the Curtain on Race,” a conference about the country’s past and present and with an emphasis on Alabama history, ended with a challenge to meeting participants: “What are you going to do when you leave?” To foster an open discussion at the April 6 meeting at Troy University, organizers presented two films about [...]
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At the first White House Forum to Combat Human Trafficking, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) was honored, along with other nonprofit organizations, for their work in fighting human trafficking. The April 15 event featured a number of White House representatives, including Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and [...]
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Fifty years after the March on Washington, this year’s State of Black America finds that the African-American equality gap with whites has barely changed. The report, released April 10 by the National Urban League, provides a retrospective analysis on the progress made since 1963, and offers solutions to help create full equality between African-Americans [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The financially beleaguered Postal Service backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery, conceding Wednesday that its gamble to compel congressional approval had failed. With limited options for saving money, the governing board said the agency should reopen negotiations with unions to lower labor costs and consider raising mail prices. Yet [...]
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