Between May and June there have been over 2300 immigrant and refugee children fleeing violence in their home countries only to be separated from their families at the US border. Children being detained in subpar facilities, children representing themselves in court, and the unjust, violent, and physical separation of children from their parents has permeated both mainstream and social media channels in vivid, heartbreaking and visual narrative. While modern-day immigration policies seem to merely replicate a tainted, white supremacist past, cultural activists have historically re-written, re-imagined, re-purposed, and re-drawn worlds worth fighting for. Thi Bui is the award-winning author of The Best We Could Do , a graphic memoir that documents her family's escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves in America. Bui discusses the journey of putting together such a personal story and her reflections on its social and political relevance.

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Thi Bui , Author, "The Best We Could Do"

The Supreme Court this session has upheld Ohio's very aggressive efforts to purge its voter rolls -- thereby siding with Republicans who argue without evidence that more voting restrictions are needed to combat what they claim is widespread voter fraud.

To learn more about the fight against these new voter suppression tactics, we talked to John C. Yang, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Washington DC about what's at stake.

Learn more about protecting the vote this election season at AAAJ's website.

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John C. Yang, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice

After months of bellicose banter and rising tensions between the leaders of the US and North Korea, a turnaround suddenly arrived with President Trump and Chairman Kim's summit in Singapore. Now the meeting is being hailed as the biggest foreign relations breakthrough of the TRump administration, and the moment has unleashed a wave of hope, skepticism, ridicule and disbelief, along with a lot of questions and confusion. So what are the prospects of peace and reconciliation in the age of Trump. We talk to Tammy Kim, a Korean American journalist currently in Seoul, about the reaction on the ground.

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Tammy Kim, journalist

Although the courts struck down segregation laws long ago, the informal structures of inequality have become entrenched through softer borders social exclusion.

In New York City, most public school kids are black, Asian or Latino, but the schools are among the most highly segregated in the country. And only one in four New Yorkers live in a neighborhood that could be considered racially diverse. We talk to Sarah Camiscoli, an organizer with Integrate NYC, which is leading the #StillNotEqual campaign, about how to promote meaningful integration in city schools.

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Sarah Camiscoli, Integrate NYC