Sentences with phrase «immigrant neighborhoods on»

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A Little Village neighborhood group on Wednesday announced that it will launch a campaign to get the Chicago Park District to fulfill its three - year - old promise to build and staff a park in the predominantly Mexican immigrant community.

'» jokes Troche, the child of immigrant parents who grew up hiding her minority identity on multiple levels in a tough Chicago neighborhood during the 1960s and»70s.

I think this commitment is represented well by HGSE faculty members, including some hired during my deanship, for example: Nancy Hill with her work on parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socio - economic, and neighborhood contexts; Meira Levinson with her work on civic and multicultural education; Natasha Warikoo with her work on race, immigration, inequality, and culture as they relate to education; and Hiro Yoshikawa with his work on the development of young children in immigrant families.

Further, as one of the rare institutions that welcomes all, closing down a nearby neighborhood school would place a large burden on many immigrant Latino families when the school is quite possibly the only social service that they can access.

Lush Life is set on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the old, largely Jewish immigrant neighborhood where Price's grandparents lived - and which today is a popular slumming spot for a young, mostly white crowd.

Just a short ride on the subway (7 Train) from Manhattan is Jackson Heights, Queens, one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the city (if not the country) with over 65 % of the population made up of immigrants, and an estimated 138 languages spoken here.

Rather than doing that, Mexico City - born photographer Amanda Gutiérrez seeks to document her surroundings as she ventures through Brooklyn's Sunset Park, focusing both on her «subjective experience as a Mexican woman living and working in New York» and painting a photographic portrait of the neighborhood's Mexican immigrant community.

From Brewerytown in Philadelphia, a neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places, characterized by the remains of the ten breweries that once stood there, to New York City's host of former breweries, run mostly by German immigrants — our early cities loved beer.

Other select projects include: Artistic Producer for the 4th annual Chicago Home Theater Festival, a 10 - day festival of artistic exchange within neighborhoods that have experienced systemic disinvestment featuring narratives by and about artists of color, women and femmes, migrants and immigrants, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities (2016), and Project Coordinator for Our Miss Brooks: A Centennial Celebration, a national a year - long multidisciplinary celebration on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks (2017).

At a moment when South Asian communities, women, and immigrant neighborhoods like the Lower East Side are being targeted by an evidence - averse administration, this exhibition reflects on the complex global and personal histories that shape conflicting views of our contemporary moment.

focuses on the rich cultural history of the neighborhood and takes an unflinching look at the daily lives of the working - class people and immigrants who lived there.

A long - time resident of Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, he has been an activist and organizer on issues of war, immigrants» rights, LGBTQ rights, racial justice and Palestinian self - determination.