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Making a difference – one idea, business, or person, at a time.

Andres Carrillo, founder of the pop-up Cocina Pachuco, is using his cuisine to fundraise for immigrants in detention 

Born and raised in El Paso, the recently arrived chef is strengthening ties with his new home. One way he's doing that: supporting the state's immigrant communities.

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“The work has become three times harder”

We speak to pro bono immigration attorney Serene Hawasli-Kashlan, legal director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Atlanta, about what it's like to do her job right now.

“We did it”: Latinx student film Nuestra Realidad makes its cinematic debut at Tara Theatre

“We’re really taking up the space and not only just taking it, but we’re adding to it.”

An afternoon at the ICNA food pantry on Memorial Drive

We sat down with Abdul Basit to talk about his work fighting food insecurity and what it’s like to do his job in the midst of mass federal cuts.

“I cannot sit around doing nothing.”

With internet access severely restricted in Iran, solidarity rallies and social media campaigns have popped up around the Atlanta metro.

“Everybody has a ‘Raani’ in their house”

At Raani Coffee on Moreland Avenue, Praveena Sundarraj honors South India’s coffee traditions—and builds a new kind of “third space” for coffee aficionados and their parents

These Latinos are running for a cause: each other

Los Corridos, an Atlanta based run club, pivots to support community, alongside jogs on the Beltline

“Still pain…but in my mind I’m feeling good”

A Snellville based Laotian monk who lost his leg in the Walk for Peace, is back home and local residents are eager to embrace him, and his message

It’s been a tough year. These feature stories kept us going.
“No se permitirá más discusión sobre ICE”

Una mirada dentro de la reunión del comité asesor de una escuela secundaria del condado de DeKalb que silenció las preocupaciones sobre ICE