Diane Bou Khalil/Borderless Magazine EducationHealthStaff pickTrending How a Chicago Nonprofit Creates Community To Empower Middle Eastern and Arab Women The Middle Eastern Immigrant and Refugee Alliance (MIRA) launched a women's empowerment group last fall to foster community and teach essential life skills.Diane Bou KhalilMarch 15, 2024
Samantha Friend Cabrera for Borderless Magazine HealthImmigration PolicyOrganizingStaff pick Oak Park Volunteers Search For Housing Solutions Amid Migrant Crisis Chicago shelters house over 15,000 migrants. With eviction notices incoming, Oak Park and local volunteers are looking for solutions.Katrina PhamFebruary 6, 2024
Saleha Soadat for Borderless Magazine Broken-Winged Birds: Afghans in ExileStaff pick Defying Gravity: An Afghan’s Journey to Get His Pilot License Najibullah Amini overcame ethnic discrimination, poverty and the oppressive Taliban regime to pursue his dream of becoming a pilot.Saleha SoadatJanuary 22, 2024
Mustafa Hussain for Borderless Magazine OrganizingStaff pick Two months on, Chicagoans grapple with the devastation of the Gaza war Local Palestinians and Jewish people are mourning the deaths of people in Israel and Gaza and calling for an end to the war.Diane Bou KhalilDecember 20, 2023
Jonathan Aguilar/Borderless Magazine EnvironmentInvestigationStaff pickTrending West Chicago is Cleaning Up the Last of its Nuclear Contamination. Residents Exposed to Radiation Say ‘It’s Not Over’ A local factory was once the largest producer of thorium in the world. This fall, the “radioactive capital of the Midwest” is doing one last cleanup.Liuan HuskaJuly 12, 2022
Michelle Kanaar/Borderless Magazine As Told ToBroken-Winged Birds: Afghans in ExileStaff pickTrending This Female Afghan Governor Fought Against the Taliban Salima Mazari was one of just three women serving as a district governor in Afghanistan before the Taliban took over.Saleha SoadatJuly 7, 2022
Claudia Hernández for Borderless Magazine Staff pick Read Our Award-Nominated Stories An investigation into the spread of COVID in immigrant detention centers, our comic book and our reporting on trans asylum seekersBorderless Magazine StaffApril 27, 2022
EnvironmentMi barrio me respaldaOrganizingStaff pickVisuals Reclaiming the Sacrifice Zone The youth-led campaign for environmental justice on the Southeast Side.Maria MaynezMay 6, 2021