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Boston faces a shortage of medical interpreters

Boston faces a shortage of medical interpreters

Wenxuan Fan, Reporter
March 17, 2023
Sarang Sekhavat is the political director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition.

What Question 4, the right to a driver’s license regardless of legal status, means for Boston’s undocumented communities

Riana Buchman, Reporter
November 1, 2022
Artist-organizer Sam Lê Shave’s Mekong River installation. Credits: AARW

Dorchester Reckons With Deportation, Displacement at #WhoBelongsHereWhoDoesnt Exhibition

Mehr Singh, Editor
October 4, 2022
All Eyes on Plymouth protestors march to Plymouth County Correctional Facility on Sept. 23rd, 2021.

Outcry over conditions at Plymouth County Correctional Facility — community groups call for ICE detainees’ release

Marigo Farr, Reporter
December 16, 2021
Boston City Council meeting April 15, 2020

Boston City Council meeting April 15, 2020

Jordan Erb
April 16, 2020
Mehzabin Mitzy Shaikh, owner of Guru the Caterer, serves hearty lunches to customers at the farmers market in Copley Square.

Changemaker: Mehzabin Shaikh, co-owner of restaurant Guru the Caterer

Avantika Panda, Reporter
April 6, 2020
Marina Rodríguez, East Bostons Nueva Vida Christian Church English program director, helping immigrants in Boston learn English and live with dignity. Photo by Maria Aguirre Torres.

Changemaker: Marina Rodríguez, English program director at Nueva Vida Christian Church

Maria Aguirre Torres
February 24, 2020
Marchers move through the streets of Winthrop with their banners. Photo by Elizabeth Torres.

Legislators set to push for driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants in 2020

Elizabeth Torres
January 2, 2020
Valeria Do Vale at work at the Student Immigration Movement. Photo by Eileen OGrady.

Changemaker: Valeria Do Vale, Student Immigrant Movement coordinator

Gibby Free
November 25, 2019
Immigrants that arrived in Boston from 1920-1954 climbed these stairs after being processed in the East Boston Immigration Station. The stairs are located just down the street from the Golden Stairs Immigration law office. Photo by Avery Bleichfeld.

New non-profit law center provides lifeline for New England’s immigrant communities

Avery Bleichfeld
September 12, 2019
Left out of democracy: the Americans who live without representation

Left out of democracy: the Americans who live without representation

May 2, 2019
Life in Mission Hill: Dhrumin Patel

Life in Mission Hill: Dhrumin Patel

February 22, 2019
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