From Center For Security Policy
by HEATHER ROBINSON
As a child, American human rights activist Simon Deng survived brutal enslavement by Islamists and witnessed their destruction of his village in Sudan.
Today, at 50, Deng is an American citizen and one of the leading advocates for the rights of his people, …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Her autobiography is titled “From Russia With Luck,” but it was more than luck that landed Dr. Zoya Schmuter her job as a forensic pathologist for the New York City medical examiner’s office.
Schmuter, who at 71 still has sparkling …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
When his children were small, they would ask Roman Kent to tell them stories about his boyhood.
A Holocaust survivor, Kent told them happy stories about his family - his brother, two sisters, himself and their parents - …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Outside Purnima Kapur’s office, the spires and towers of downtown Brooklyn sparkle in the early fall sunlight.
“Everything we create here is for people to live and work in,” says Kapur, 45, wearing a smart black suit and …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
“We agreed we wanted a life that had an open home,” says Jodi Samuels, co-founder of Jewish International Connection New York, a nonprofit organization that provides a home away from home to immigrant Jews from around …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
A survivor of domestic violence and rape, Katarina Tepesh has spent much of her adulthood trying to forget.
But after Sept. 11, the 58-year-old Croatian, who immigrated to New York at 17, started trying to remember.
An upper …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
“My mother told me, ‘My heart is broken to be separated from you, but you will find family in America,’” says Morris Sheriff. “That never left my mind.”
Nattily dressed in a tan suit and a red and …
From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
In the early 1980s, Mohammed Saleh got a break that changed his life. He was working as a pharmacist, raising a family in New York City and struggling to get ahead.
A Muslim originally from Bangladesh, Saleh heard about a …
From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
On a blustery afternoon in late March, Jimmy Bissan guides a visitor around his neighborhood.
In the distance, the Cyclone roller coaster, a Coney Island landmark, stands dinosaur-like above a terrain filled with souvenir shops and pizza places.
Solid, …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
March 5, 2008
“When you look at the news, they don’t talk about different African communities in the U.S. unless something bad happens.”
On the third floor of the Harlem State Office Building, groups of young Africans and African-Americans sit at …