Peter Schurmann

2 weeks ago | americancommunitymedia.org | Peter Schurmann

Every so often you encounter a story that opens doors and opens imaginations onto previously unimagined or unrecalled realities, to the way things were or might have been, and things that still can be. If only by sheer dint of will. It’s that power inherent in story that so rattles authoritarians, who seek to close those same doors, to be the gatekeepers over which doors are opened and which shut.

2 weeks ago | americancommunitymedia.org | Peter Schurmann

Every so often you encounter a story that opens doors onto previously unimagined or unrecalled realities, to the way things were or might have been, and things that still can be. If only by sheer dint of will. It’s that power inherent in story that so rattles authoritarians, who seek to close those same doors, to be the gatekeepers over which doors are opened and which shut. In the photo there’s a young adult, eyes intent, staring through wire framed glasses, hair closely cropped.

3 weeks ago | epatoday.org | Peter Schurmann

Updated: Dec 28, 2024A new report finds that gaps in election legislation including the Voting Rights Act excludes many Limited English Proficient communities across the country. This story was first reported by Jesús García of La Opinión. Nearly 70 million Americans speak a language other than English at home. With election day less than two weeks out, this population — nearly one in four Americans — continues to face significant barriers to voting.

1 month ago | lapost.us | Peter Schurmann

For Richard Rodriguez there is nothing abstract about faith. It is grounded in the concreteness of his lived experience, in the priests who nurtured his intellectual growth or offered mass to his aging mother, in the Latin phrases that sounded “sort of Spanish” to his childhood ears in Sacramento, where he grew up, and in the kneeling African parishioner who attends morning mass and, for Rodriguez, embodies the future of his faith.

1 month ago | americancommunitymedia.org | Peter Schurmann

For Richard Rodriguez there is nothing abstract about faith. It is grounded in the concreteness of his lived experience, in the priests who nurtured his intellectual growth or offered mass to his aging mother, in the Latin phrases that sounded “sort of Spanish” to his childhood ears in Sacramento, where he grew up, and in the kneeling African parishioner who attends morning mass and, for Rodriguez, embodies the future of his faith.