Deborah Douglas is Director of the Medill Midwest Solutions Journalism Hub, the award-winning journalist is a founding co-editor in chief of The Emancipator, a digital platform that reimagines abolitionist newspapers, and author of U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places, and Events That Made the Movement.
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A palpable tension mixed with anticipation filled Chicago-area newsrooms this fall when journalists found themselves suddenly pressed into the service of covering the White House’s immigration enforcement surge. Local journalists worked around the clock to cover community responses to a militarized and sometimes violent presence in neighborhoods in and around the city. Federal immigration policing has escalated across the nation, including cities like Los Angeles, Houston, Memphis and Charlotte, North Carolina. The unprecedented effort continues...
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