In Alexa’s home, immigrant rights have been an ongoing conversation, and early on she learned about her family’s precarious legal status. Her parents came to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1990s seeking a better life and Alexa was born […]

“Now we just have to figure out how to bring my grandmother from Venezuela,” said six-year-old Kendry.  He looked up at his dad with big wide eyes. His dad, also named Kendry, put his arm around his son. The father, […]

La señora yells “TAMALES ROJOS Y VERDE” on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 41st Street in Sunset Park. If you step inside a nearby bodega you might hear the owner speaking Arabic. In New York City languages spoken by […]