The day after the jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of all charges related to him killing two people and wounding a third, I took the 12:51 PM train to Kenosha, not sure what to expect.

I wasn’t expecting the kind of rioting and looting that rocked Kenosha in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake, which inspired Rittenhouse to drive to the ( Read more... )

When it comes to the "Invasion of Ded Morozy and Snegurachki" event that took place in Millennium Park earlier today, two of my mom's saying comes to mind ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, a journalist I know told me something that disappointed me.

Since she told this to me in implicit confidence, I'm going to avoid a lot of details, so bear with me.

( Here is the long and short of it )

As people who follow me on Facebook and Twitter know, my maternal grandmother, Grandma Nina, recently moved to these United States, to the village where my mom still lives. The circumstances behind it is a topic for another blog post. For now, the important part is that she arrived in March 22. I saw her when my family and I met her at the airport ( Read more... )

I first ran into Bushra Amiwala… well, actually, looking through the Niles Bugle archives, it turned out that I actually first ran into her when she was a still a senior at Niles North High School. But she really got my attention when I was covering a May 30 interfaith dinner at Morton Grove’s Muslim Education Center. She talked about her political ( Read more... )