When Kitti Murray and her husband Bill moved to Clarkston, Georgia, she never expected she’d be running a coffee shop that doubles as job training for...
On this edition of GPB's Music Minute, we feature an artist who uses his gift of music to not only entertain his fans, but to benefit noble causes. With...
When Luma Mufleh moved from Jordan to the United States in 1994 to attend Smith College, she didn’t imagine she’d ever be running a full-fledged school...
Learning English is not easy. That can be true even for immigrants to the United States who have had the benefit of the best education available in the...
June 20 marks World Refugee Day. The United Nations defines refugees as people forced to flee their native countries "because of persecution, war or...
Syria is suffering its worst humanitarian crisis in years. The United Nations estimates some 5.6 million Syrians have fled their country in search of a...
After writing his New York Times op-ed, “Dear White America," George Yancy received hundreds of hateful messages. Yancy, an Emory University professor...
Parts of President Trump’s travel ban went into effect last week, but the change might be temporary. The U.S. Supreme Court lifted an injunction on the...
A federal appeals court upheld a stay on President Trump’s executive order that temporarily bans travel to the United States for refugees and people...
Over the weekend, federal immigration officials detained and later released 11 lawful permanent residents at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International...
Update 1/30/17 9:30 p.m. As of this evening, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle had the following comment on the immigration and refugee order: " We are constantly...
Each year, thousands of refugees are detained at the Stewart Detention Facility in Lumpkin, Georgia. A large percentage of these people end up being...
