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The local media misses a protest aimed at a controversial anti-Mulsim film — and a chance to educate the masses.

A University of Illinois study suggests that wage theft in car washing goes beyond a few rogue employers.

New protections for undocumented immigrants, the CTA doesn't give a damn what you think and the mystery behind Southern California's rotten odor is solved.

Javier Sicilia, whose son was killed last year by drug traffickers in Cuernavaca, blames the drug war for violence on both sides of the border.

  WBEZ’s Richard Steele, Sun-Times’ columnist Mary Mitchel, and Vincent Onyema, a board member of the Nigerian Cultural Foundation talk about relations between Africans and African-Americans  in the region. And, it’s the 25th anniversary of the term “world music.” The genre groups together artists who might not have much in common, but the term has helped boost the sales of many international artists.  

From a small college town in Indiana to the streets of Chicago, a Haitian immigrant tells the story of his struggle to understand racism in the US. 

The Trans-Border Institute puts out a yearly report on drug related violence which tracks where the violence is happening and examines the relationship between drug violence, government policy and law enforcement. And, the Global Detention Project, a research group based at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, tracks migration-related detention worldwide.