Ijeoma Opara
Reporter, Journalist at The International Center for Investigative Reporting (ICIR)
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2 weeks ago |
ourdiasporastories.com | Ijeoma Opara
Ijeoma Opara1 day ago11 min readUpdated: 11 hours agoBy Ijeoma Opara I am not sure when I stopped talking. I arrived in the U.S. in August 2024, after I was awarded a fellowship by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism to pursue a master’s degree. Initially, everything seemed great. The first time I walked into the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, my heart was so full.
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1 month ago |
streetcarsuburbs.news | Ijeoma Opara
By IJEOMA OPARAThe two members of the Prince George’s County Council who represent College Park warned on March 22 that the coming budget cycle will be “extremely difficult.”At a town hall meeting at city hall, County Councilmembers Thomas Dernoga (District 1) and Eric Olson (District 3) cited uncertainty surrounding federal grants and budget cuts as factors that could affect how much money the county will have to spend in fiscal year 2026.
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1 month ago |
streetcarsuburbs.news | Ijeoma Opara
By IJEOMA OPARAFidel Alfaro, 42, has run Alfaro Barbershop on Rhode Island Avenue since 2019, but he speaks very little English. So most of the information he learns about the city comes from one of his regular customers, City Councilmember Jacob Hernandez (District 1), who gives him the information in Spanish. “Even [on days] he just comes to cut his hair, he always gave me some ideas about how the city works,” Alfaro said through an interpreter.
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1 month ago |
streetcarsuburbs.news | Ijeoma Opara
By IJEOMA OPARACollege Park officials and community members gathered at Duvall Field for a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday. The ceremony kickstarted the renovation of the field, at 9119 Rhode Island Ave., into a seven-acre park for sports, entertainment and community events. “This will be a real asset to this community and the whole surrounding area,” Councilmember Alan Hew (District 1) said.
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2 months ago |
streetcarsuburbs.news | Ijeoma Opara
By IJEOMA OPARAWhen Mayor Pro Tem Denise Mitchell (District 4) first considered running for a seat on College Park’s City Council in 2007, she hesitated. Despite her years of involvement in community activism, Mitchell, now 61, always stayed behind the scenes. “I never would have thought I would be an elected official,” she said.
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When we think of the difficult parts of leaving home, we think money, documentation, and these are real issues. But the “little” things -like finding your own voice- aren’t really that little. I wrote about hearing my accent for the first time in America: https://t.co/j4oz5HdUjb
THE FIRST THING I LOST IN AMERICA WAS MY VOICE @ije_le writes about her recent move from Nigeria to America, where she is struggling to communicate with Americans who often don't have the patience nor the exposure to understand different accents. https://t.co/QWR3maeJB4
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