A recent De Moines Register article reported that scores of people from Somalia have arrived in Postville, Iowa to work at the Agriprocessors plant that was recently raided. Read More

New Press has announced the publication of Judith Adler Hellman's "The World of Mexican Migrants." In her groundbreaking book "Mexican Lives," Judith Adler Hellman profiled fifteen Mexicans, both poor and rich, each of whom was struggling to survive the radical economic and political shifts of Mexico in the 1990s.

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According to this New York Times article “Diseases and disorders caused by dirty hands — like diarrhea — kill a child somewhere in the world about every 15 seconds, and about half those deaths could be prevented with the regular use of soap, studies indicate. Read More

The Society of Professional Journalists announced the recipients of its New America Award. First-place recipients are Karen Frillmann from WNYC, New York Public Radio and Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska of the Polish Daily News for the series, "Polish Immigrants in a Changing City."

This is the fourth year for the award, which honors public service journalism collaborations that include ethnic media in order to explore and expose an issue of importance to immigrant or ethnic communities in the United States. 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

Documentary producers are putting up clips from their film on YouTube to generate discussion and to inform their media making while it is in process. Read More