Author: Sarah Kate Kramer
Bio: Sarah Kate Kramer first got hooked on collecting stories as a StoryCorps facilitator, then traveled the world with a microphone for a few years before settling down in her hometown of New York City. From 2010-2012 she was the editor of Feet in 2 Worlds and a freelance reporter for WNYC Radio, where she created “Niche Market,” a weekly segment that profiled specialty stores in New York. Sarah is now a producer at Radio Diaries, a non-profit that produces documentaries for NPR and other public radio outlets.
Contributions:
Posted on: 01 Sep 2010
Despite the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq, the struggles continue for Iraqis displaced by the war.
Posted on: 26 Aug 2010
The head of the Republican Party says anti-immigrant legislation does not define the GOP. But many Hispanic Republicans are having a hard time buying that message.
Posted on: 25 Aug 2010
Republican candidates who favor greater restrictions on immigration won races in Arizona and Florida.
Posted on: 23 Aug 2010
The fight between Bill McCollum and Rick Scott for Florida’s GOP gubernatorial nomination has featured anti-immigrant rhetoric–and it’s making the some of the state’s Hispanic Republicans uneasy.
Posted on: 19 Aug 2010
Four out of nine candidates in the Democratic Primary in Florida’s 17th district are Haitian American. Community leaders fear they will split the vote and miss an opportunity to send the first Haitian American to Congress.
Posted on: 12 Aug 2010
The current challenge to the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th amendment is nothing new–the Supreme Court took on the issue back in 1898.
Posted on: 10 Aug 2010
The Spanish-language daily has just published a series of reports on the recent wave of attacks on Mexican immigrants living on Staten Island.
Posted on: 03 Aug 2010
Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union argue that immigrant detainees suffering with mental disabilities should be provided with a lawyer at no charge.
Posted on: 30 Jul 2010
A federal injunction against parts of Arizona’s new immigration law leaves immigrants in New York and their supporters unsatisfied.
Posted on: 12 Jul 2010
In the weekend after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona for pre-empting federal immigration policy, political leaders were all over the national media talking about the issue.
