by Jack Doppelt | Jun 12, 2020 | Culture Shock, Family, Good Question
By Bailey Pekar, Medill, Immigrant Connect For Manar Kodamah, celebrating Ramadan in quarantine “doesn’t have the same spirit” that she’s used to feeling. Usually, celebrating Ramadan is marked as a time of togetherness when Kodamah’s extended family and friends...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 9, 2020 | Family, Our Staff
Imani Sumbi, Medill, Innocent Connect I try to listen closely. My grandmother is providing instructions on how she wants to be ushered into the afterlife. I don’t want to forget any details and let her down. She leads me to her closet and points out the lacey mint...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 9, 2020 | Back Home, Family, Our Staff
Lydia Rivers, Medill, Immigrant Connect I watch raindrops roll down the windshield from the passenger seat as my mother drives down the highway on another dark winter day in the Pacific Northwest. The radio plays quietly, muffled by the downpour and our loud...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 9, 2020 | Family, Our Staff
Ash Ravid, Medill, Immigrant Connect, immigrant Connect CNN is on the kitchen TV, the New York Times newsletter is on my laptop, we’re drinking our morning french press, and my grandmother is telling anyone who will listen all the news that has anything to do with...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 9, 2020 | Back Home, Family, Our Staff
Bailey Pekar, Medill, Immigrant Connect The heart of our home is in the kitchen, where my grandfather and I sit at the table in the late afternoon. In front of him is his prized wooden cutting board, with its fancy scalloped handle, laden with peaches that he slices...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 9, 2020 | Family, Identity, Our Staff
By Jason Harward, Medill, Immigrant Connect The salon was sometimes busy, but business is slower than usual on this weekday afternoon near the end of summer. When it was busy, I remember hating the wait. Unlike my doctor or dentist appointments, I can’t locate a...
