Lori Fernald Khamala is the director of the North Carolina Immigrant Rights Program for the American Friends Service Committee and also serves as the coordinator of AFSC’s Sanctuary Everywhere initiative.
After a devastating earthquake in Nepal, TPS helped my family and friends move forward.
Most journalists in PyeongChang for the Winter Games don’t have experience reporting on North Korea, one of the toughest beats in the world. Interested in telling fresh, new, and accurate stories about what's happening in one of the world's least understood places? Here are five tips to help you write like an expert on North Korea.
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Maria Alcivar recently served as a Lang Fellow with AFSC’s Immigrant Rights Program in Des Moines. She is currently a full-time student in the Human Development and Family Studies Ph.D. Program at Iowa State.
The media tends to tell one story about North Korea. This Olympics Winter Games in PyeongChang offers an opportunity to learn more. Help build peace by asking questions to get the whole picture.
In his three years in office, President Trump has launched multiple attacks on immigrants and communities of color; supported measures that deepen economic inequality; and has taken steps abroad—and at home—that will make America less safe.
President Trump has released an alarming immigration framework that would radically alter the U.S. immigration system. In exchange for promising a 10- to 12-year path for citizenship for DACA recipients and other young immigrants...