A guide to using community organizing techniques to bring journalists closer to their audiences
Nissa RheeMarch 14, 2023
Los artistas y educadores de Chicago detrás del programa “lo pequeño es todo” (“small is all”) hablan sobre lo que los lleva a vivir en la ciudad.
Nissa RheeDecember 13, 2021
The Chicago artists and educators behind the “small is all" program talk about what grounds them in the city.
Nissa RheeDecember 1, 2021
El gobernador de Illinois, JB Pritzker, firmó hoy la ley Illinois Way Forward Act, que pondrá fin a la detención de inmigrantes en el estado en 2022 y ampliará las protecciones para las comunidades de inmigrantes.
Nissa RheeAugust 6, 2021
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Illinois Way Forward Act today, which will end immigrant detention in the state in 2022 and expand protections for immigrant communities.
Nissa RheeAugust 2, 2021
Immigration advocate Fred Tsao reacts to Trump's new immigration ban and shares his hopes for a better future.
Nissa RheeApril 22, 2020
How the coronavirus pandemic is straining immigration court and detention systems in the Midwest.
Nissa RheeApril 15, 2020
Author Daniel Denvir on the “bipartisan war on immigrants” and how it’s falling apart.
Nissa RheeApril 8, 2020
For one Chicago teacher, Trump’s Travel Ban has meant living a continent away from her Syrian husband.
Nissa RheeFebruary 19, 2020
Nestor Gomez’s storytelling showcase 80 Minutes Around the World focuses on the personal in a time of competing narratives about immigration.
Nissa RheeJanuary 22, 2020
Executive director Nissa Rhee shares some of her favorite stories of the year.
Nissa RheeDecember 31, 2019
After fleeing war, many refugees who come to Chicago face new traumas in a city that had nearly 3,000 shooting victims last year. But the health services that once existed to support them are now being gutted.
Nissa RheeNovember 20, 2019
Kristel and Mario fled violence in Honduras only to be separated from each other and detained for 5 months. Now, they are starting over.
Nissa RheeFebruary 21, 2019
Before he became the best-selling author author of “The Kite Runner,” Khaled Hosseini was an asylum seeker.
Nissa RheeNovember 6, 2018
Tania Unzueta is a fierce advocate for the rights of undocumented immigrants around the country.
Nissa RheeSeptember 19, 2018
Residents share their experiences with racial profiling and police brutality in Chicago.
Nissa RheeSeptember 19, 2018
Fanny Diego-Alvarez was born in the state of Guerrero in Mexico and moved with her family to Little Village when she was six years old.
Nissa RheeSeptember 19, 2018
Jimena Martinez migrated to the United States with her parents and two siblings when she was five years old.
Nissa RheeJuly 31, 2018
Forty people braved a snowstorm on Monday, February 5, to attend Borderless’ night of immigrant stories at the Oak Park Public Library.
Nissa RheeMarch 1, 2018
Just 11 months apart in age, brothers Mufaddal and Abdulghany Hamadeh have shared almost everything in their lives — including their love of the two countries they call home.
Nissa RheeOctober 25, 2017
After living in the United States for 25 years, Aram Han Sifuentes applied to be a citizen this week.
Nissa RheeMay 11, 2017
Masjid al-Rabia mosque held its first service less than a month after the election of President Trump and has found itself the target of both anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT groups.
Nissa RheeMarch 2, 2017
Seventeen-year-old Malak Afaneh was learning about Rosie the Riveter in a class at her high school in Chicago when an idea struck her: What if Rosie was Muslim?
Nissa RheeFebruary 28, 2017
Jamie Friedland answered a call for legal help at O’Hare International Airport January 28, the day after the immigration ban began.
Nissa RheeFebruary 15, 2017
