Short term memory is what we all suffer from. More than three months after the raids in Postville some of us are starting to forget the devastation and struggles of a small community in Iowa. Read More

There is a terrific blog published on the Fourth of July in the Twin Cities Daily Planet. The blogger, Daniel Cubias, paints a vivid picture of our "All American" holiday, from a newcomer's perspective. Read More

On March 26, 2008, the Philadelphia New Routes team officially launched the Media Partnerships for Community Engagement in Southeast Asian Health at WHYY TV12 studio. Read More

On Monday, May 12, Postville, a tiny town in Northeastern Iowa experienced the largest ICE raid in US history. 390 workers at North America’s largest Kosher meat processing plant were loaded into buses and taken away for a different kind of processing. Read More

Roberto Lovato, a New York-based writer for New America Media, writes about the complex intersection of race and immigration politics in the American South. For example, the Southeast is home to the
fastest-growing Latino population in the United States, but he points out that although this story takes place in Georgia, it is perhaps not much different than the stories of immigrants and African Americans in other parts of this country.

"Documented and undocumented Latinos dealing with the economic and
political effects of Juan Crow in Georgia (and across the country) find
themselves unwitting actors in a centuries-old racial drama, which they
must alter if Juan Crow is to be defeated. Read More

"Swen is no little girl calling home to be picked up after her day in school, but she is a schoolgirl. She is one of more than a dozen Liberian immigrant women aged between 60 and 75, who come to BrookdaleCovenant Church in Brooklyn Center every Saturday to be taught skills that most people in the United States do not have to go to a classroom for. Read More