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Go Big Read author event with Yaa Gyasi scheduled

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“We are all a million things at once,” Yaa Gyasi has said about “Transcendent Kingdom.” Her book uses fiction to explore the very real issues of race, immigration, science, faith and family. In it, we meet Gifty, a graduate student in neuroscience and the only member of her Ghanaian family born in the United States, …

Documentary on Chinese Exclusion Act provides insights into immigration

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The keys to understanding current issues on immigration, citizenship, and labor might be found in radical legislation enacted in the United States more than 100 years ago. The keys to understanding current issues on immigration, citizenship, and labor might be found in radical legislation enacted in the United States more than 100 years ago.