Tag Archives: immigration
Librarian organizes unionists against ICE
By Kwadjo Otoo Librarian Karl Schwartz first visited the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in 2017, before national news headlines captured ICE officers and anti-ICE protesters in a kind of combat, replete with billy clubs and tear gas. “It’s kind of this dystopian atmosphere … I’ve heard others refer to it as a sacrifice zone,” […]
An aid group, mainly, for African immigrants
By Henry Fernandez Planes, buses and blistered feet. Those modes of transit brought two dozen West African immigrants to the United States and, then, one June day to Afrikana, a Harlem nonprofit that helps immigrants build their American lives. Afrikana’s waiting room is where Sweet Mama’s Soul Food used to be. Those looking for help […]