by Justine Jablonska | Jun 10, 2010 | Immigration, Politics
Get the Flash Player to see this content. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Katyn National Monument. Located in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the monument is dedicated to the nearly 22,000 Polish prisoners-of-war executed by the Soviet government in the...
by Ezra Kaplan & Matt Yurus | Jun 10, 2010 | Immigration, Topics
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Members of a GLBT Bible study at Foundry United Methodist Church talk about their experiences being both gay and ChristianBree Tracey (MNS) There are good days and bad days. For Tricia Yarrow, it was a bad day. She found out...
by Dean DeChiaro & Phoebe Tollefson | Jun 10, 2010 | Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON- As Deputy Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Thomas L. Mesenbourg knows numbers. But he says his job requires more skills. “All the numbers in the world do you little good unless you can put them in some context and actually draw the lessons out of what...
by Dean DeChiaro & Phoebe Tollefson | Jun 3, 2010 | Immigration, Topics
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Reconstruction efforts in Haiti are underway after the devastating earthquake (Video by Chika Oduah/MNS; Photo courtesy of John Moore/Getty Images) The United States Institute of Peace hosted a panel where scholars and experts...
by Ezra Kaplan & Matt Yurus | May 26, 2010 | Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON –In sneakers, shorts, and a forest green T-shirt with the phrase, “Voices of Honor,” Walker Burtschell is not wearing the typical garb you see on Capitol Hill. A marine veteran discharged under “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” sweat trickles down Burtschell’s...
by Holly LaFon & Zachary Vasile | May 25, 2010 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — Mexican President Felipe Calderon drew both praise and criticism from lawmakers for his forceful statements on immigration during his two-day visit to Washington last week, but immigration reform advocates said they don’t necessarily expect his trip...