DePaul Bets on Journalism Education as a Weapon Against ICE
A new institute built for community storytellers launches alongside a platform documenting federal abuses — and neither is backing down.
WASHINGTON — DePaul University’s College of Communication officially launched its Institute for Journalism and Racial Justice that Wednesday, unveiled before an audience of students, freelancers, and community storytellers in the same breath as a platform designed to document what the federal government has been doing to Chicago since Operation Midway Blitz began last September — a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity that has left hundreds arrested, families split across state lines, and at least one man, Silverio Villegas-González, dead.