Open Fist Theatre Company’s production of Amerika, now onstage at Atwater Village Theatre, fittingly depicts the nation cast ...

“Give me your tired, your poor, / your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / the wretched refuse of your teeming shore,” were words once welcoming the world to America. They’re from the poem ...

Speaking on immigration reform yesterday, President Obama invoked the Statue of Liberty and Emma Lazarus, whose famous poem beckons immigrants to American shores. Lazarus' Jewish family fled ...

These beautiful words must never be forgotten. Those of us who are non-Indigenous owe our lives, our prosperity, our achievements, our successes and our failures to this country we call the United ...

Since inception of the United States almost 250 years ago, there has been much discussion about immigrants. We are, after all, a nation of immigrants, documented and undocumented, and an amalgamation ...

But the tectonic shift in the choice of common New Yorkers has disrupted this narrative. The 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani, the son of an immigrant family, a socialist democrat, has surmounted the ...