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“The Undocumented Americans” by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was born in Ecuador and was one of the first undocumented students to attend Harvard.  With the book set in six main sections–Staten Island, Ground Zero, Miami, Flint, Cleveland, and New Haven—Cornejo Villavicencio traveled throughout the United States to report on the diverse, sometimes lesser-known but nonetheless important and valuable stories […]

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“The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey” by Dawn Anahid MacKeen

On April 24th, 1915 the Ottoman Empire began its systematic annihilation of the Armenian people with the arrest and deportation of Armenian leaders from Constantinople. The ensuing genocide resulted in the deaths of at least 600,000 Armenian men, women, and children before the First World War was over. The toll is estimated even higher, with […]