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Ashley Makar
Ashley Makar is the community liaison for IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services) in New Haven, CT. Her writing includes a book of essays called You Were Strangers.
A civil rights pilgrimage through the eyes of Congolese refugee teenagers
We began to understand why James Baldwin called US history “more beautiful and more terrible than anyone has ever said about it.”
Lost boys: Sudanese refugees in limbo
A handful of the “lost boys of Sudan”—the 26,000 children who fled civil war on foot—are on the big screen endearing themselves to American audiences....
Homeward bound: The Dinka tribe in Sudan
In Dinka Bor tradition, long ebony shafts serve as walking sticks for the elderly, as scepters for newly married women and as weapons for initiates into manhood....
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