Tag: writing

  • When the Law Becomes the Fear

    When the Law Becomes the Fear

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    Paschal Nwokocha speaks plainly about immigration, dignity, and the cruelty of turning people into political targets. His words are blunt, but the truth usually is. This conversation is part of 345-Witness, a project about seeing immigrants not as abstractions, but as people building lives, families, and communities here in Minnesota.

  • Inside Cuba’s Broken Safety Net

    Inside Cuba’s Broken Safety Net

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    In a crumbling Havana apartment, two mothers raise three children with no doctors, no daycare, and no reliable water. Love and grit keep them afloat, but a broken system shapes every part of their lives, from bread to schooling to survival.

  • Taken

    Taken

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    Inside the families apartment, a father explains why his wife did not come home from work. A baby no longer sleeps through the night. A fourteen-year-old weighs whether it is safe to attend school. This is not a headline. It is a family adjusting to life after their wife and mother was taken.

  • Portraits from Cabo San Lucas

    Portraits from Cabo San Lucas

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    I walked past the edge of Cabo San Lucas’s tourist zone and into the town itself, moving slowly and meeting people as they worked, waited, and lived their daily lives. These portraits reflect brief moments of trust and a Mexico rarely seen from the resort side of the wall.

  • Years Past the Health Limit: Inside a Cuban Foundry

    Years Past the Health Limit: Inside a Cuban Foundry

    In a Havana foundry, men shape boat propellers by hand with no gloves, no masks, and no safety — working decades beyond a supposed 10-year limit. What looks like craft is really survival.