by Silvia Martelli | Mar 20, 2020 | Demographics, Featured, Topics
NEW YORK — Little Italy in New York City is becoming littler and littler. The once 50-block, vibrant Italian neighborhood is now reduced to a few quiet streets in Lower Manhattan. As rents spiked, longtime Italian-Americans have moved away and integrated into...
by Silvia Martelli | Mar 18, 2020 | Topics
CHICAGO — After School Matters, a Chicago-based non-profit that provides teenagers with out-of-school programs, keeps kids away from criminal behaviour and gives them opportunities for a brighter future. The program was created more than two decades ago, when...
by Silvia Martelli | Feb 23, 2020 | Politics
LAS VEGAS — “I am here because my vote can make a difference,” Octavio Barrera Soto said in Spanish as he walked into a caucus venue in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood on Saturday morning. Barrera Soto migrated from Mexico to the U.S. in 1985. A native...
by Silvia Martelli | Feb 23, 2020 | Politics
LAS VEGAS — Climate change will be among the top priorities for Democratic voters in Nevada as the state begins to caucus Saturday. Climate and environmental protection is a “very important” or the “most important” issue for 86 percent of...
by Silvia Martelli | Feb 4, 2020 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s expansion of the travel ban to six additional countries has nothing to do with security reasons as the administration claimed and is rather built on Islamophobia and xenophobia, leaders of several civil rights groups said....
