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Nine children smile huddled together on a large rock.
September 3, 2020 Acceptance / Community stories / Family / Religion / Suburban

Full House, Full Life

By Sarah Hill A large, majestic house on a 10-acre plot of land in Rochester Hills, Michigan, is where Laura

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August 7, 2020 Acceptance / Ethnicity / Identity / Race / Religion / Suburban

Culture and Being Biracial

By Adam Conigliaro In Southeast Michigan, a biracial American man faces discrimination from his extended family for his skin pigmentation.

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Young woman smiles, sitting on a flowery couch, hat on her head, long hair down on one shoulder.
July 21, 2020 Community stories / Family / Healing / Immigration / Religion / Suburban

Mexican, Spanish, Super Mexican…

By Page Gardner Vanessa Rodriguez showed me around her home, pointing at different decor and specifying, “this is Mexican,” “this

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Young woman wearing glasses smiles to camera, as she poses with a red sari and grey and pink head scarf.
May 26, 2020 Acceptance / Ethnicity / Family / Gender / Identity / Immigration / Race / Religion

Diversity, Identity, and Choice

By Sarah Gudenau Norunuhar “Noony” Ali is a nursing student in her sophomore year at Oakland University (OU) with an

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Young man dressed in black and green jacket walks on urban street, smoke coming out of a manhole.
May 12, 2020 Community stories / Ethnicity / Family / Immigration / Religion

The Challenge of Immigration, the Challenge of People

By Philip Alghazawi In a recent podcast, Evan Elias shares memories of immigrating to the United States when he was

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Young man sits at table, writing in a notebook
March 31, 2020 Ethnicity / Family / Immigration / Religion

Chaldean American and Suspected

By Emily Gilmer I sat down with fellow classmate and dear friend of mine Allan Bush, whose mother’s side of

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Dried blue flowers, partly grounded into a powder in a mortar.
February 6, 2020 Age / Ethnicity / Family / Gender / Identity / Intersectionality / Race / Religion / Sexuality

Friendly. Biracial. Introverted. Lost.

Time for another class exercise with six-word stories to reflect on diversity and identity. Understanding. Curious. Passionate. Believer. Loving. Brazilian.

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View of swamp, surrounded by trees, sunset behind trees
January 23, 2020 Acceptance / Family / Religion / Rural

Louisiana Accent Away From Home

By Paige Webb Allison Webb is a fourth-grade elementary school teacher. She has been teaching for a total of 18

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Aerial view of trees, brown and green colors.
January 7, 2020 Acceptance / Religion

From Michigan to Alabama and Back

By Michael Gifford Gillian Gifford is currently finishing her senior year of undergraduate studies at Oakland University. She will be

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Close-up of smiling woman's face.
December 31, 2019 Ethnicity / Family / Immigration / Religion / Rural / Urban

Learning the “Immigrant Way”

By Isabella Lucci A first generation American, Sonia Lucci has made quite the career and family for herself. She graduated

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