Race, Class & Communities
The Race, Class & Communities Desk seeks to provide enterprise reporting on broad themes and trends related to race and income in the Chicago metropolitan area and to provide beat coverage of topical issues including housing, immigration, work/opportunity and demographics.
“We are not a weak community. We are a strong community,” says Highland Park resident Ashbey Beasley.
The small, relatively poor South American country has received four times more Venezuelans than the United States but offers a path to integration. We went to see it.
Many nonprofit groups are bringing humanitarian and other aid to impoverished Venezuelan migrants starting over in a new country.
Rep. Lisa Hernandez declined to give a timeline on any proposal, which she says could authorize more than 400,000 undocumented immigrants to work.
For the first time, Mexicans abroad can vote in person at locations around the world.
The conservative group Judicial Watch filed a class action arguing that Evanston’s first-in-the-nation reparations plan violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment because it uses race as a requirement for eligibility.
Learning English is a priority for asylum seekers as they create new lives outside of city-run shelters.
