After a plumbing flood at the aging Logan Correctional Center, three women organized one of the first successful hunger strikes in an Illinois women’s prison in years.
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Coronavirus in jail: The life and loss of Nickolas Lee
A widow tried to save her late husband’s life during his stay at 26th and Cal. Instead she witnessed the explosive spread of COVID-19 inside.
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The Promise
Like thousands of asylum seekers, Abu Omar waits with the uncertainty of whether the U.S. government will accept his asylum application.
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Asylum City
The harrowing stories of six asylum seekers who now call Chicago home
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“Dimensions of Citizenship” at Wrightwood 659 and “Stateless” at MoCP examine what global citizenship looks like today
The UN estimates that in 2018, 68 million people were displaced worldwide. Where do they belong?
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Local Syrian-American doctors support Trump’s missile strikes, despite skepticism
These Chicago-area doctors are concerned about president’s next step, but desperate for an end to the bloody civil war.
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Teaching Chicagoans that in Rojava, resistance is life
At a talk Saturday, an intrigued local audience showed support for the radical leftist Kurdish utopia in Syria.
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After Trump’s air strikes, a Syrian asylum seeker remembers revolution and imprisonment in Damascus
Abu Shadi, who survived torture by the Assad regime, says he feels torn between Trump and an apathetic world.
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An Iraqi-American professor remembers his complicated midwestern youth
DePaul’s Laith Saud describes his American life during a seemingly endless war.