Amid a pandemic biking boom, cycling education organizations are working to make sure access is equitable and inclusive.
Immigration
From making comfort food to speaking with ancestors, immigrant families across the U.S. are turning to cultural traditions to cope with the isolation and stress of quarantine.
Meet the farmers growing traditional Laotian foods in the hills of North Carolina.
Dolores and Rogelio navigate the political contrasts and conflicts of life in El Paso, Texas.
“There’s something about immigrants that makes us almost expansive in our thinking, because in our neighborhood, the world meets.”
When Trump signed the “Muslim ban,” lawyer Tahmina Watson recruited a small army to provide free legal aid to immigrants. Then came the family separation policy.
A new initiative from LA’s Office of Immigrant Affairs aims to help immigrant business owners and essential workers gain access to economic relief.
A lot of Black immigrants like me have come to see that for our children to live the better lives we envisioned in this country, we need to be all-in against racism—no matter where or whom it strikes.
Why migration?
While Indigenous leaders work to address issues they face with U.S.-Mexico border policy, Indigenous people must continue to grapple with the everyday impacts of increasing border enforcement.
Often denied legal recognition and systemic support, immigrant communities have long been finding solutions to the social ills plaguing all communities.
For some families, seeking better opportunities means leaving behind their loved ones, including children.
Zimbabweans who had to flee their low-lying farms due to drought are finding an unexpected welcome in the nation’s Eastern Highlands.
Since well before the Vietnam War, Southeast Asian migrants have faced racism, targeted immigration enforcement, and denial of their basic human rights.
New York’s immigrant communities turn to the tools of civic life to protect their rights.
With strong, rich roots in the U.S., Black people are part of this country’s immigration narrative.
We don’t want saviors, we want accomplices.
Our healthcare and food systems depend on immigrant workers, including those who are undocumented. Greater protections for them would be good for everyone.
A growing number of political exiles from Nicaragua are putting their experience and activism to work in their adopted country.
Throughout history, immigrants have borne the brunt not just of a pandemic, but the U.S. government’s disproportionate and cruel response to it.
The decision by the high court comes in the midst of a global pandemic and an uprising in the wake of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police that lays bare the extend of racial injustice in this country.
While the pandemic has created new challenges for refugees, it has also sparked a new sense of unity.
A new database by American Friends Service Committee tracks companies involved in border militarization, including the building and monitoring of walls and immigrant detention and surveillance.
Latinx writers are demanding accountability from the publishing industry—and encouraging the public to read responsibly.
A century ago, impoverished European immigrants got health care and practical help from the settlement house movement.
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