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March, 2009
Data: Click here to download an Excel document containing a list of 44 communities with high traffic stop disparities for Latinos.
In the summer, Osman Maldonado drove less than a mile from his house to a gas station near a busy intersection in northwest suburban Crystal Lake for cigarettes. He spotted a McHenry County Sheriff's deputy parked in the lot of an adjacent boutique. The deputy...
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October, 2008
They were two very different families. One was from Chandigarh in the northern reaches of India near Kashmir, halfway between the borders of Pakistan and China. The other, from Lagos, the burgeoning former capital of Nigeria on the African coast of the Atlantic Ocean. But their fates would converge with the deaths of the two U.S. soldiers–"both immigrants, both gunners–"killed in Iraq. They had...
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June, 2008
These days, he goes by "H.H.," but Hormoz Hormozi still remembers when he couldn't speak a lick of English. As an Iranian exchange student in 1959, Hormozi worked at a restaurant in the kitchen. At first, he had no clue what the cooks were saying when they were asking him to get a utensil, like a fork, spoon or bowl with little holes in it. So he'd bring over a handful of items, which they'd...
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