The Scars We Carry _ Immigrants' indelible wounds.

We were talking about how the explosions in Baghdad marked us. I was saying how I jump whenever there’s a large explosion, and he looked at me and flatly said he has never stopped hearing the explosions.  Even here. Even months later after arriving from Iraq. I fumbled to say something. I was stunned. “Do [...]

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Written by on July 21, 2010

Who picked your blueberries?

Nowadays when I reach for a bunch of blueberries, I pause and wonder. Who picked these berries? Was it the work of some of the people I met recently in Western Michigan? The people who told me about long days in the sun without a break or without water or a toilet and how they [...]

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Written by on July 14, 2010

First Annual Colombian Music Festival (part one)

Leo Suarez guides you through Chicago’s first annual Colombian Music Festival. Listen now to the first on-air special recorded on Tuesday, July 5th, 2010.

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Written by on July 12, 2010

I see Chicago, a photo workshop

You take pictures, but they don’t get any better, right? That’s not good because this is a place that cries out for photographs and that’s what we need to reach our audience and to tell our stories. So let’s work on this together. We’re holding a photography workshop for the ethnic news media on Tuesday, [...]

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Written by on July 6, 2010

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