Tania With nothing but a couple of belongings in her hand, a cerulean color diary, and her favorite stuffed animal, a pink and white-colored giraffe that her grandmother gave her a few years ago, 10-year-old Tania boards a plane with her mother, father, and...
It was a Wednesday morning of the year 2015, when the usual announcement sounded on the rusty speaker in my daily 5th grade life. “Good morning ladies and gentlemen … raise your right hand over your heart ... ready, begin,” was the usual morning routine. It was spirit...
After nearly 4 years of living in a sanctuary at a Maplewood Church, Alex Garcia walked out on Wednesday, Feb. 24 without the fear of deportation. Following the Trump administration’s denial in 2017 of his appeal to stay in the country, a crowd around the church was...
United States President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden debated on stage in Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday. This was the final and third presidential debate after the second debate, scheduled for Oct. 15, was canceled due to Trump’s COVID-19...
We left on a whim. “A new job,” my father repeated. I had never been to America, or whatever they called it. “Global superpower, land of the free,”— all big phrases that I didn’t understand. The one that struck me the most, however, was “melting pot.” I’d like that —...
Those in the LGBTQ undocumented community had much to celebrate this month. Along with honoring PRIDE month — a time for LGBTQ communities to come together and celebrate being themselves as well as an opportunity to peacefully protest and raise political awareness of...
When Harvard-Westlake cafeteria staffer June thinks of home, she pictures rows of closely spaced houses, swarms of motorcycles and sheets of humid air pressing against her skin. Most of all, June, said she thinks of her mother and her sister, who manage a small,...
"Mr. Patriot" comments on individuals who brand their nationalism as patriotism. We've seen a public insurgence of this phenomenon under the current administration. "Mr. Patriot" He grew up on red, white and blue Small town, open space, freedom No one dreamed about...
It is June, and it is a period of relief for students who are subjected to nine-month school years. The conclusion of tests and classes is supposed to freshen the air in the lungs of students like myself. And yet, it would be virtually impossible for me — and many of...
ICE had removed their shoelaces as a safety precaution, so their shoe tongues flapped open as they walked. Instead of smartphones and AirPods, they wore electronic tracking bracelets to make sure they wouldn’t miss their court dates and disappear illegally into the...
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