"ZIP Codes with Imaeyen" explores how a five-digit arrangement is shorthand to describe how where we live defines how we live. Join Imaeyen as she embeds into communities to uncover the intricacies of communities.
The U.S. has had a vastly different approach to Haitian asylum seekers than it has had to Ukrainians and critics say it’s because they’re Black. As Haitian asylees try to find a way to build a life in the U.S. Haitian migrants face higher deportation rates and unique challenges. This is part two of ZIP Codes with Imaeyen’s two-part series on Haitian migrants.
Haitian migrants in Mexico face unique challenges because of their race, and yet, they are fighting to carve out new lives for themselves in Latin America as their native nation teeters on the brink of collapse. This is part one of ZIP Codes with Imaeyen, a two-part series on Haitian migrants.
A small Mexican town has been a tourist destination for people in the U.S. seeking affordable health care. With hundreds of dentists, Los Algodones, Mexico, has earned the nickname Molar City. But what does it mean when people living in the richest country in the world cross the border for health care and how does the influx impact Los Algodones?
Blind and visually impaired athletes are expanding soccer’s playing field and showing their disability gives them the ability to make the world’s most popular game more accessible.
Millions of people in the U.S. have to travel long distances for prenatal and postpartum care because they don't have options where they live. These maternity deserts are taxing to both the patients and the medical professionals who serve them.
The U.S. women’s prison population has exploded in the last 40 years. Many incarcerated women are dealing with trauma and one program aims to help them work through it via movement. Imaeyen Ibanga travels to Colorado to discover what dance can tell us about the carceral system, the people in it, and if the nation can choreograph a better life for imprisoned people.
The United States’ cheapest city isn’t inexpensive enough for the thousands who have found themselves without shelter. Huntsville, AL, is expecting an increase in its homeless population as the city’s cost of living and population rise. Imaeyen Ibanga travels to the area to uncover how people without homes are surviving in a place touted for its cheapness.
Georgia is one of the least LGBTQ+-friendly states in the U.S. It has sodomy laws, HIV/AIDS criminalization laws and no statewide policies preventing insurance exclusions for trans health care. So, what is it like for trans people trying to have children and those raising them in this place? Imaeyen Ibanga visits the Peach State to uncover how a pregnant man, a trans woman trying to conceive and a trans man who’s given birth are navigating parenthood in the midst of national anti-trans sentiment.
Minnesota has the largest number of Korean adoptees in the United States, and many of them grew up with white parents in white households. Imaeyen Ibanga travels to the Twin Cities to uncover what it’s like for this group during a nationwide uptick in anti-Asian hate and violence.
The U.S. has gone from raging a drug war on marijuana to seeing it as big business. But it’s a business not everyone can get into. So what does it take to start a cannabis company and who gets to do it? Imaeyen Ibanga travels to Illinois to uncover the truth about how Black and white green can be.
Utah has the highest marriage rate in the nation and the youngest newlyweds. But why? Imaeyen Ibanga follows a matchmaker and a bachelor hoping to find his “eternal companion” to discover the reason why so many in this community get married, and what it means when you’re one of the singles looking for love.
Every drop of drinkable water in Sandbranch, Texas, is shipped in. The small community has never had running water in its entire 142-year existence and its groundwater is contaminated. Why do all of the towns neighboring it have water, but Sandbranch doesn’t?
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