In the News
The work of the Center for New Community's board, staff, and partners are regularly featured in news stories from around the country. Below is a selection of some of these stories. For our op-eds, letters to the editor, and blog posts, please visit our blog Imagine2050.
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Street Roots News | April 8, 2017
Reporter Emily Green covers the protest of anti-immigrant figure Jessica Vaughan speaking at an Oregonians for Immigration Reform event. She writes: "According to Center for New Community, a Chicago-based organization that tracks “organized bigotry,” nativist across the country have shown increasing interest in Oregon and efforts to pass anti-immigrant laws in the state, in part due to the low barrier to qualify for a ballot measure." -
WBEZ Chicago | March 30, 2017
Center for New Community Executive Director Terri Johnson speaks with WBEZ regarding the anti-Muslim groups that have received funding from JUF. Johnson says, "We are seeing a return to nativism and white nationalism that is not gonna go away. And when I say "return," what I mean is that the mask is off." -
Vice News | March 20, 2017
Reporter David Noriega covered the Trump administration's plan to publicize crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. “I think this is a truly terrifying decision that DHS has made,” said Lindsay Schubiner of the Center for New Community, a group that tracks what it calls “organized bigotry.” “These weekly releases have the effect of criminalizing immigrants in the public imagination.” -
The New Yorker | February 17, 2017
Reporter Jonathan Blitzer traces the connections between the anti-immigrant movement, Border Patrol, and Trump. He writes: "According to a report by the Center for New Community, a nonprofit research and advocacy group, Zermeno was just one of many National Border Patrol Council representatives who have coördinated with anti-immigrant activists in recent years—giving them tours of the borderlands, leaking information and data about migrants to them, and delivering testimony at their behest before Congress." -
Rewire | January 30, 2017
As Border Patrol and ICE unions applauded Trump's anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim executive orders, reporter Tina Vasquez writes: "Neither the endorsements nor the response to Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders came as a surprise to undocumented activists and immigration advocates. The line between federal immigration agencies and anti-immigrant hate groups has become increasingly blurred. A 2015 report from the Center for New Community revealed that Border Patrol agents were working with anti-immigrant white nationalists." -
The New Yorker | January 30, 2017
The New Yorker describes the troubling agenda driving The Remembrance Project, an anti-immigrant group dangerously promoting narratives that criminalize immigrants. “The Remembrance Project has never had the kind of access to the mainstream that Donald Trump has been giving them,” Lindsay Schubiner, CNC's Interim Advocacy Director, told The New Yorker. -
Vice News | January 11, 2017
Reporter David Noriega delves into the harm that Sessions could cause via the immigration court system, based on his ties to organized nativism. Lindsay Schubiner, CNC's Interim Advocacy Director, is quoted as saying, “Jeff Sessions may be the most dangerous ally that extremist anti-immigrant groups have in Congress." -
McClatchyDC | November 16, 2016
The Center for New Community weighs in on the mainstreaming of hate speech in the Trump era. “One thing we have been kind of joking about in the office is how, back in the day, people would wear sheets for a reason,” says Kalia Abiade, CNC’s Advocacy Director. “But now it’s unabashed. People aren’t even trying to hide their faces or their names.” -
NPR's Latino USA | October 28, 2016
CNC Senior Program Manager Lindsay Schubiner talks to NPR's Latino USA about how the anti-immigrant movement strategically uses tragedy in the debate over immigration: "What the Remembrance Project does is take these true and heartbreaking stories and ends up using them as a weapon against all immigrants." -
Medill Reports Chicago | October 11, 2016
The Center for New Community joined a coalition of Chicago-based Muslim advocacy and civil rights groups to protest a police training seminar sponsored by an arms manufacturer and featuring a problematic speaker known for promoting anti-Muslim rhetoric. -
Buzzfeed | September 27, 2016
Reporter David Noriega explores ACT for America's direct line to Donald Trump and efforts to seize on allegations of a hideous crime in Idaho’s Magic Valley to spread its reach among regular Americans. In the report, CNC's Advocacy Director Kalia Abiade says, “They embody this idea that Islamophobia is not fringe...Their positions might be extreme, but they are not a fringe movement.” -
Imagine2050 | August 19, 2016
The Center for New Community, with a coalition of Chicago-based civil rights organizations, called for an end to racism, Islamophobia, and hate violence after two Muslim women were assaulted in an apparent anti-Muslim attack in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood. -
Media Matters | August 17, 2016
CNC Senior Program Manager, Lindsay Schubiner, responds to the news that the Trump campaign hired Stephen Bannon of Breitbart News, which has “has provided a high-profile outlet for virulently nativist individuals for years.” -
KCRW: To the Point | July 12, 2016
CNC Executive Director Terri A. Johnson discusses "the prospects for that “post-racial America” that’s been so much discussed—even though it’s never actually happened." -
Associated Press | May 13, 2016
Read the brief: https://www.muslimadvocates.org/isbr_amicus_brief/ -
The New Yorker | May 11, 2016
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Southern Pines Pilot | May 10, 2016
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Chicago Tribune | May 9, 2016
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In These Times | April 5, 2016
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Bloomberg View | April 4, 2016
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El Diario NY | December 24, 2015
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BBC | December 8, 2015
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The Nation | November 16, 2015