We live our lives in stories, but not just any kind of stories. They are the stories we re-create, we frame, we nourish. Gabriel Garcia Marquez said it best. “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” Because the ethnic news media is the [...]
Written by Stephen on May 22, 2013
We were talking about East African restaurants and this guy says he knows a bunch of great Somali places. I had no idea. Then we shifted to Ethiopian and on and on here in Chicago. We are the world of the tastes we carry, and tastes we explore. Here’s a story by Katherine Iorio about [...]
Written by Stephen on May 20, 2013
If you want to make a difference, you need to know what is important. And that’s why the news media needs to listen to the community as much as possible. And that’s why it is especially important for the ethnic media, because folks count on you to care for them, to pay special attention to [...]
Written by Stephen on May 16, 2013
They haven’t stopped coming. No. There are more of them, in fact. They are coming from Central America in getting numbers because the despair is greater and the failed American dream for many on the road hasn’t snared them yet. This is a story among the many to cover as we plunge ahead into deciphering [...]
Written by Stephen on May 14, 2013
here’s a prelude for our news forum Tuesday, May7th, on immigration, at 10 am, 33 E. Congress, room 101. Columbia College, Chicago By Stephen Franklin Chicago is the world. But don’t take my word for it. Explore the city and you will discover restaurants, social services, museums, and houses of worship that bind Chicago to [...]
Written by Stephen on May 6, 2013
The immigration reform buzz hasn’t changed one thing. The arrest and shuffling off of thousands. What exactly is happening? From excellent journalism by the Chicago Reporter, we learn that speedy deportations have consumed thousands from the Chicago area and across the nation. “From October 2007 through September 2011, more than 460,000 deportations were carried out [...]
Written by Stephen on May 5, 2013
We truly are the world here and sometimes we forget this. La Risa Lynch’s story here reminds us of how African immigrants have enriched us. It also tells us that Africans worry about possible changes in the nation’s immigration laws. We’ll be talking about these and other issues at our May 7th news gathering on [...]
Written by Stephen on May 2, 2013
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