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Posted inNews & Politics

A revolutionary act

by Jennifer Bamberg, Kyel Brooks, Samantha Callender, Susan Carlotta Ellis, Sarah Conway and City Bureau October 13, 2021October 14, 2021

BIPOC growers on what it’s like to urban farm on the south and west sides

“Fasting felt necessary, mind over matter,” Sharonda Miller says.
Posted inNews & Politics

First came the sewage, then the hunger strike

by Sarah Conway July 7, 2021August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inNews & Politics

Coronavirus in jail: The life and loss of Nickolas Lee

by Sarah Conway and City Bureau June 30, 2020August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inNews & Politics

The Promise

by Sarah Conway, Alex V. Hernandez, Jon Brown and Borderless Magazine December 11, 2019August 18, 2021

Like thousands of asylum seekers, Abu Omar waits with the uncertainty of whether the U.S. government will accept his asylum application.

Posted inNews & Politics

Asylum City

by Sarah Conway, Michelle Kanaar, Apoorva Mittal, Kash and Borderless Magazine October 23, 2019August 18, 2021

The harrowing stories of six asylum seekers who now call Chicago home

Posted inArts & Culture

“Dimensions of Citizenship” at Wrightwood 659 and “Stateless” at MoCP examine what global citizenship looks like today

by Sarah Conway February 14, 2019August 18, 2021

The UN estimates that in 2018, 68 million people were displaced worldwide. Where do they belong?

Posted inBlogs

Local Syrian-American doctors support Trump’s missile strikes, despite skepticism

by Sarah Conway April 27, 2017August 18, 2021

These Chicago-area doctors are concerned about president’s next step, but desperate for an end to the bloody civil war.

Posted inBlogs

Teaching Chicagoans that in Rojava, resistance is life

by Sarah Conway April 26, 2017August 18, 2021

At a talk Saturday, an intrigued local audience showed support for the radical leftist Kurdish utopia in Syria.

Posted inNews & Politics

After Trump’s air strikes, a Syrian asylum seeker remembers revolution and imprisonment in Damascus

by Sarah Conway April 20, 2017August 18, 2021

Abu Shadi, who survived torture by the Assad regime, says he feels torn between Trump and an apathetic world.

Posted inBlogs

An Iraqi-American professor remembers his complicated midwestern youth

by Sarah Conway April 6, 2017August 18, 2021

DePaul’s Laith Saud describes his American life during a seemingly endless war.

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