PA Media Group celebrated individuals and organizations dedicated to peace, tolerance and humanitarian compassion Tuesday at the fifth-annual Peace & Justice in PA Awards. The event is part of PennLive’s “live journalism” event series.

It was an event that began at Penn State Harrisburg in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in Lower Swatara Township, only to be interrupted by a power outage that affected the entire campus.

The event’s keynote speaker, Sarah Towle, author of “Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands,” gave her speech from the PennLive office later Tuesday afternoon.

Towle’s book examines the U.S. immigration system, following her journey as she goes to the U.S. southern border and uncovers the “broken” immigration system. Her book is an exposé, a call to a

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