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James Edwards

James Edwards is a former social media producer at The World's Global Nation desk. Previously, he was a reporter and producer with WGBH News, contributing to the station's coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and manhunt. James was also a contributor to WGBH's award-winning radio series on the Boston area's changing Catholic Church. James began his career at the investigative magazine The Chicago Reporter and the television show Need to Know on PBS. He is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');
LGBTQ
Global Politics
Anti-LGBTQ laws in US prompt travel warning from UK’s government
school building
Education
How to keep immigrant and first-generation students ‘dropping in’ instead of dropping out
Jose and Oscar
Education
Their parents work the farms as migrant labor. What are their kids’ lives like?
Soldiers patrol in front of the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, November 16, 2015, as security increases after last Friday's series of deadly attacks in the French capital.
Conflict
France identifies Belgian as Paris attacks mastermind; US bombs ISIS oil trucks
Grace Lee Boggs
Global Politics
Remembering the life of trailblazer Grace Lee Boggs
Yogi Berra
Sports
The neighborhood that taught Yogi Berra to take those forks in the road
Ahmed Mohamed
Justice
Ahmed Mohamed and the lingering effects of racial profiling
Karla Hernandez-Mats
Education
Teaching a global nation: Supporting immigrant students in a place where they are not the minority
Boston students
Education
Teaching a global nation: US classrooms are becoming an unlikely immigration battleground
Virginia shooting memorial
Conflict
For me, there’s no shock at ‘America’s first social media murder’
daily stormer 3
Justice
The white supremacists lining up behind Trump
Ricardo Aca
Global Politics
An undocumented immigrant who works in a Trump hotel continues to stands up to The Donald
Wrestler Hulk Hogan rallies the crowd during Game 4 of the 2009 NBA Finals.
Culture
Hulk Hogan may be on the hot seat, but racism in pro wrestling is far from being down for the count
Lafayette shooting
Health
Looking at the ‘virtue’ that drives some to kill themselves and others
Florida Senator Marco Rubio celebrates his 2010 election win with his mother Oria.
Global Politics
Immigrant bashers among the 6 sons of immigrants running for president
A US military naturalization ceremony in South Korea in 2008.
Education
A brief history of immigration and education in the US
Accepted to all eight Ivy League schools, Victor Agbafe will attend Harvard University this fall, setting him on the path to his dream of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Education
How Victor Agbafe’s immigrant parents taught him the lessons to get into all eight Ivies