Posted on May 14, 2013 at 3:06 pm
By Emily Walkenhorst Imperial Palace isn’t just another Chinese restaurant. Past the wooden doors and decorative archway of 701 N. 27th St., diners peruse... [READ MORE]
Posted on May 14, 2013 at 2:16 pm
By Emily Walkenhorst Leticia Avalos and her husband, Oscar, have four children, and they support themselves on his salary as a contractor. Yet each... [READ MORE]
Posted on April 10, 2013 at 9:57 am
By Tiago Zenero de Souza When religious persecution drove Mary Lun to flee Burma for a Malaysian refugee camp in 2009, she also had... [READ MORE]
Posted on April 9, 2013 at 8:42 am
By Amanda Mobley Guenther When it comes to his photography, Wesaam Al-Badry knows he is walking in the footsteps of giants. Photographers like Henri... [READ MORE]
Posted on March 24, 2013 at 6:03 pm
By Lee Kreimer On a snowy Tuesday morning, a young woman and her mother enter Fahima Nashir’s tailoring shop with a wadded veil in... [READ MORE]
Posted on March 24, 2013 at 3:57 pm
By Laura Smith Every day refugees are landing on United States soil. Languages are different. Clothes are different. Jobs are different. Faces are different.... [READ MORE]
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:21 am
By Joseph Moore / Nebraska News Service An immigrant from Central Africa hopes to bring the democracy lessons he learns inside the Nebraska Legislature... [READ MORE]
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:01 pm
By Laura Smith On an unseasonably warm day in January, more than 1,000 families in Lincoln’s Near South neighborhood are getting the chance to... [READ MORE]
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:38 am
By Kay Kemmet Marina Mendez wants to work, but after a fall down some stairs put her on disability, she hasn’t been able to... [READ MORE]
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 6:21 pm
By Dan Holtmeyer The women filtered one at a time into one of the Center for People in Need’s classrooms one October Tuesday morning,... [READ MORE]
The New Americans Spring Art Showcase opened Friday night at the Lux Center for the Arts in Lincoln, highlighting the work of three immigrants to Lincoln as well as a number of works by Lincoln high school students. The show continues throughout May. Wesaam Al-Badry is a photographer who emigrated from Iraq in 1994. Al-badry’s … Read More
By Kay Kemmet The scars on Elvira Baques’ face are faded and difficult to see. But the impact on her life hasn’t gone away. Baques had been in the United States for only three weeks when her fiancé beat her up, repeatedly bit her cheek, causing the large scar, punched her in the face, and … Read More
By Laura Smith Poison ivy rarely leads to anything good. Your skin turns to a red, patchy rash and you have so many itches you don’t know where to begin scratching. Lisa Hiatt is severely allergic to poison ivy. She hates poison ivy, actually. But if it hadn’t thrived in her backyard, she would have … Read More