BEYOND BORDERS: Recognizing the Contributions and Struggles of Immigrants and Refugees in RI
Check out this video that was produced a couple years ago by a former intern from Providence College!
Check out the 15 new stories of local immigrants and refugees in Rhode Island on our website - welcomingri.org!
Live in Rhode Island and want to share your story? Contact Michelle DePlante, our Welcoming RI coordinator at mdeplante@iiri.org
National Geographic magazine continues a yearlong series examining the specific challenges and solutions we face as the worldwide population reaches 7 billion people in 2011 with a March story looking at humans’ massive impact on the planet. Other stories will follow throughout 2011.
He spoke.
It wasn’t the language that I spoke.
He ate food.
It wasn’t the food that I ate.
He got dressed.
It wasn’t the clothes that I wore.
He shook my hand.
It wasn’t the same color as mine.
But when he laughed, it was,
How I laughed.
And when he cried,
It was how I cried.
“This is an important landmark,” said Roderick Harrison, a former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau who is now a sociologist at Howard University. “This generation is growing up much more accustomed to diversity than its elders.”
The report comes as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the legality of Arizona’s strict immigration law, with many states weighing similar get-tough measures.
“We remain in a dangerous period where those appealing to anti-immigration elements are fueling a divisiveness and hostility that might take decades to overcome,” Mr. Harrison said.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the treads of that tapestry are equal in value no matter their color.
- Maya Angelou (via unwinding-world)
We should all know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of this tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
- Maya Angelou (via lizardwithaladder)
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