Ellie Kim37 ChicagoPeople began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend’s voice up into the rafters. As…2 min read·Nov 2, 2021----
Ellie Kim36 ChicagoAs I stand there, I find myself thinking that somewhere down the line both guilt and empathy speak to our own buried sense that an order of…1 min read·Oct 18, 2021----
Ellie Kim35 ChicagoWhen I opened the door, I found a big man standing there with his hands in his pockets, an even-toothed grin breaking across his body face…1 min read·Oct 13, 2021----
Ellie Kim34 ChicagoThat’s what was new: the arrival of a new equilibrium between hope and fear; the sense, shared by adults and youth alike, that some, if not…2 min read·Oct 12, 2021----
Ellie Kim33 ChicagoI changed as a result of that bus trip, in a fundamental way. It was the sort of change that’s important not because it alters your concert…2 min read·Oct 11, 2021----
Ellie Kim32 ChicagoSometimes, listening to such innocent dreams, I would find myself fighting off the urge to gather up these girls and their babies in my…2 min read·Oct 8, 2021----
Ellie Kim31 ChicagoAlmost a year had passed since my arrival in Chicago, and our labor had finally begun to bear fruit. Will’s and Mary’s street corner group…2 min read·Oct 7, 2021----
Ellie Kim30 ChicagoAll my life, I had carried a single image of my father, one that I had sometimes rebelled against but had never questioned, one that I had…2 min read·Oct 6, 2021----
Ellie Kim29 ChicagoBarack met his younger sister, Auma. She came to meet her brother in Chicago. she was wondering about all his life from the beginning. so…2 min read·Oct 4, 2021----
Ellie Kim28 ChicagoFor the rest of the day and into the next, I thought about Ruby’s eyes. I had handled the moment badly, I told myself, made her feel…2 min read·Sep 30, 2021----