Jennifer N. Dines

3 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Jennifer N. Dines |Stephen Prager |Spencer Roberts |Kyle Kulinski

Mass protests in Turkey, another student kidnapped by ICE, Trump’s war on unions, a homeless candidate for mayor of Seattle, AND MUCH MORE... You’ve probably noticed that this article is dated for yesterday, March 28. That’s because it’s an edition of the Current Affairs News Briefing, our email newsletter service.

3 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Jennifer N. Dines |Nathan J. Robinson |Kyle Kulinski

My high school students are targets in Trump’s cruel deportation spree. It can’t be allowed to continue. I am a high school teacher in the Boston Public Schools. I teach English to new immigrant students. I have done this work for nearly two decades. This year, my students come from Cameroon, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Venezuela, and Vietnam.

Apr 9, 2024 | retrofiedmag.com | Jennifer N. Dines

The TV first spoke to me on a midsummer night when I was thirteen years old. My father and I had an argument over whether I could go to a friend’s house. In the end, he relented, but the waves of tension remained when I returned home that night, filling me with adrenalin. My parents had spent so many nights fighting that summer, with one another and with me, that I no longer wanted to sleep in my bedroom, down the hall from my parents.

Oct 18, 2023 | currentaffairs.org | Jennifer N. Dines

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Oct 15, 2023 | currentaffairs.org | Jennifer N. Dines

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