El dia de nuestras madres في اليوم من أمهاتنا The Day of Our Mothers

Sun’s up, blue skies. Running out to pick up flowers on Mother’s Day and what else? But then I’m snagged by Frances’ essay that I start and can’t s stop (read the prior post from her here) http://chicagoistheworld.org/2012/05/when-mother%E2%80%99s-day-goes-awry/ It’s about being a mother on mother’s day and the day’s meaning for a mother. And that [...]

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Written by on May 13, 2012

A Summit of Africans here in Chicago

Chicago’s Africans are no different than any other immigrants here. Soon after they arrive, they struggle to adjust. So they seek links with those from back home. And they set up organizations to ease the pain, to renew the bonds and to help start life anew. Again and again and again, this is the story [...]

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Written by on May 11, 2012

We are world, so let’s let NATO know that–also a workshop to help you cover the summit

We speak over 100 languages. We have more than 60 organizations that link us back to the places around the world where we come from. So when NATO’s hundreds of delegates and visitors gather here in the coming days before their summit on May 20-21, think how you can tell the story of your community [...]

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Written by on May 9, 2012

Speaking to the heart – why the ethnic news media exists

Rosa works in a meatpacking plant in the Back of the Yards. She gets $11 an hour. That’s after 18 years and on a tough job. When her company checked her social security number, it found out that it was not proper and she was let go. So were about 200 workers from the same [...]

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Written by on May 2, 2012

What are the children telling us?

The story of immigrant struggles changes daily. It’s a story that the ethnic news media needs to listen to and to explain. Here in Chicago, the immigrant stream is only at one end of a long line. Consider this Associated Press story and what might need to told here. If you do any reporting here [...]

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Written by on April 28, 2012

Hey, can I say that? Don’t miss these workshops

Say you have a blog. Or  you work for  a small non-profit. You write on the web and you sometimes wonder what can you say. That is, what’s legal? What can’t you say and what can get you in trouble? It can be baffling if you don’t have the experience or resources. Or what you [...]

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Written by on April 3, 2012

This is money you can’t afford to lose and information folks can’t afford not to know

Legal notices and the ethnic news media, a major change A meeting on Friday, April 20thThese are tough days for the news media and you do not want to lose any revenue. Nor do you want to ignore any revenue that you should be receiving. You also want to make sure public information that comes [...]

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Written by on April 2, 2012

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