U-M Center for Chinese Studies Kite Festival and keeping the conversation going | adventures in multicultural living

U-M Center for Chinese Studies Kite Festival and keeping the conversation going | adventures in multicultural living No Comments

An English teacher at Huron High School used one of my columns to stimulate classroom discussion of a Maya Angelou book they were reading — which was so lively it spilled into a second day, and even more impressive, students who normally never talked in class really got into the discussion.

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Written by on October 3, 2011

‘Looking Both Ways’ at the ‘Made in China’ label and 9/11 fears

'Looking Both Ways' at the 'Made in China' label and 9/11 fears No Comments

Looking into the eyes of another and engaging in their arts and learning their language are such important ways to get to know another person, another people, and to help us get past the easy labels and fears.

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Written by on September 23, 2011

Hello world, Chicago is singing your song.

Hello world, Chicago is singing your song. No Comments

Half-way through her performance the other night, Nuriya, whose high energy makes Shakira seem as if she were powered by a tiny triple A battery, stops to tell a story. She recounts how her grandfather who came from Baghdad and migrated to Mexico would always implore her grandmother at large gatherings to sing one of [...]

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Written by on September 19, 2011

Let’s remember. Let’s learn from 9/11

Let's remember. Let's learn from 9/11 1 Comment

So many scars that can’t be erased.So much lingering hurt. But we can learn from this last decade. How? Here are two events among many worth our attention and reporting. The Chicago office of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is holding a press conference at 10:30 am tomorrow (Friday) at 28 E. Jackson, [...]

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Written by on September 8, 2011

Keeping up on immigration policy,teleconference Weds.

Keeping up on immigration policy,teleconference Weds. No Comments

Because the sprawl of legal actions dealing with immigration is so broad and fast, you need to know what is happening. And you need to know how the changes relate. Here is a tele-conference Wednesday for the ethnic news media, arranged by New America Media. I would give them heed and pay attention to what’s [...]

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Written by on June 14, 2011

The women of the world are talking to you

The women of the world are talking to you No Comments

Hear a WBEZ interview with the founder of GPI http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-06-09/global-activism-women-reporters-change-their-communities-87642# From the Cameroons, Chi Yvonne Leina writes: Ngwa Amos is now a widow after his wife died in labor on a recent morning at Bamenda General Hospital in northwestern Cameroon.“We arrived [at] the hospital at 4 a.m. yesterday morning, and my wife got into the labor [...]

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Written by on May 25, 2011

The map that you should care about

The map that you should care about No Comments

What’s going on with redistricting in Illinois? Who will be the winners, the losers? More to the point, will some ethnic communities, neighborhoods and communities come out ahead and others lose? But mostly, the workshop will help explain why you should care and why, as well, should your readers, your listeners, and your community about [...]

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Written by on May 23, 2011

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