WBEZ | Pulitzer Center

August 03, 2020 | WBEZ

As Big Museums Get Rescue Grants, the President of the Nation’s Only Puerto Rican Museum Says He’s ‘Tired of Being Left Behind’

Mark Braboy and Olivia Cunningham

The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, the only Puerto Rican history museum in the United States, continues to fight for racial and financial equity. However, in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic that has ravaged Illinois, many museums of color have been feeling the squeeze of the economic hardships caused by it.

August 06, 2019 | WBEZ

Deported Veterans Say They've Been Betrayed

Maria Ines Zamudio

Miguel Pérez Jr. was among the first troops deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now he's one of dozens of deported veterans who say they've been exiled from the country they fought for.

June 21, 2019 | WBEZ

Deported U.S. Veterans Feel Abandoned by the Country They Defended

Maria Ines Zamudio

Nine deported U.S. veterans shared their stories with Pulitzer Center grantee Maria Zamudio. They spoke of their combat-related illnesses and how they long to return home.

June 11, 2019 | WBEZ, NPR

Report: U.S. Agencies Didn’t Follow Policies To Assist Immigrant Soldier

Marie Ines Zamudio

Hundreds of noncitizen veterans were placed in removal proceedings during the past six years despite policies to consider their service in deportation cases and to provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants serving in the U.S. military.

April 08, 2016 | WBEZ

In France, Muslims Face Mass Incarceration

Christopher de Bellaigue

Grantee Christopher de Bellaigue speaks with WBEZ Worldview host Jerome McDonnell on deradicalization in French jails.

January 20, 2016 | WBEZ

India's Parsi Population Crisis

Nell Freudenberger

Grantee Nell Freudenberger talks to WBEZ Worldview's Jerome McDonnell about India's Parsis, a shrinking minority group.

January 13, 2016 | WBEZ

WBEZ: Claire Provost and Matt Kennard on How World Bank's IFC Hurts the Poor

WBEZ'S Jerome McDonnell Interviews Claire Provost and Matt Kennard

Grantees Claire Provost and Matt Kennard join WBEZ's Jerome McDonnell to discuss how some of the World Bank's lending practices end up hurting the poor.

September 28, 2015 | WBEZ

Improving India's Plumbing

Ann Schraufnagel

Ann Schraufnagel, our Global Health Reporting fellow from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses India's urgent need to fix its plumbing.

July 02, 2015 | WBEZ

WBEZ: Ana Santos on Ending a Marriage in the Philippines

WBEZ's Jerome McDonnell interviews Ana Santos

WBEZ's Jerome McDonnell interviews Ana Santos, who describes the tortuous process of ending a marriage in the Philippines. For years, humiliation and hefty expenses stood between Santos and divorce.

February 25, 2015 | WBEZ

What Happened to Crimea?

Dimiter Kenarov

Pulitzer Center grantee Dimiter Kenarov is interviewed by WBEZ's Worldview about his project "Ukraine: Crimea under Siege."

July 20, 2012 | WBEZ

Reporting on the Dangers in and around Syria

Stephen Franklin, Antakya, Turkey

As the conflict rages in Syria, refugees flood into Turkey.

April 09, 2012 | WBEZ

China's Bachelor Villages

Deborah Jian Lee, Sushma Subramanian

In China, marriage-aged men outnumber women by the millions. Experts predict that by 2020, the number of men unable to find wives will be equivalent to the population of Texas.