November 20, 2017

Taskeen Yar Khan joins her mother, Naazish, on Thanksgiving to discuss college, community service, and transitions. Their conversation highlights issues of connectedness in the technological era, and the universal importance of family–regardless of how we define our own families. This story was recorded in partnership with MALA and StoryCorps. Story production credit: Sydney Jarol Naazish: […]

Nasir runs a community center for his fellow Rohingya Muslims, a religious group that has faced genocide in his home country of Myanmar. In 2012 he moved to Chicago with his family, influenced by movies that depicted the city in a positive light. Nasir loves the people of Chicago, especially how willing his neighbors were