Sept. 11: Helping People Get Smarter
By Pat Ford
Pew Center Staff Writer
They stand out like butterflies on the drab gray streets of St. Paul – the colorful, head-to-toe scarves worn by Somali women who have immigrated to the Minnesota capital over the last few years. But in the days following Sept. 11, the women vanished.
Amid the flow of national and international stories, it might have been easy to overlook this sudden absence. But reporters and editors at the St. Paul Pioneer Press – attuned to community concerns through years of civic journalism – not only noticed, they worked to bring these women back to civic life.