NAM Radio: Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 28, 2011
The Co-Host of Democracy Now! tells NAM that race has been an integral part of American media since day one & ethnic journalists have, too.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Caribbean, Ethnic Media in the News, European, Immigration, Indigenous, International Affairs, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: biography, democracy now, epic story of race and the american media, ethnic, ethnic media, free press, independent media, joe torres, journalism, juan gonzalez, media, news for all the people, race
NAM Radio: The German American Journey
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 25, 2011
Forty percent of Americans have at least 25 percent German ancestry -- but few know very much about Germany, its culture, food, and history.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, European, Immigration, International Affairs, Media, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, food
Tags: author, book, culture, food, german, germanamerican, germania, germany, history, simon winder, travel
NAM Radio: A Social History of Iranian Cinema
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 23, 2011
The first Iranian film ever was made at the turn of the 20th century and Professor Hamid Naficy is one of the few people ever to have seen it.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Gender & Sexuality, International Affairs, Media, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Religion, Top Stories
Tags: artisanal era, film, first iranian film, hamid naficy, iran, iranian, reza shah, shah, social history of iranian cinema, tehran
NAM Radio: Craig Thompson's Habibi
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 21, 2011
It looks like a holy book but Thompson's 672-page new graphic novel is anything but.
Categories: African, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Intersections, Media, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Religion, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: comic, craig thompson, graphic novel, habibi, islam, muslim, slave, slavery
NAM Radio: A Guide to Occupy Wall Street
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 10, 2011
What is Occupy Wall Street and who is involved? Here is a primer, from someone in the midst of it all.
Categories: African American, Asian, Audio, Economy, Education, Environment, European, Foreclosures, Gender & Sexuality, Health, Immigration, Indigenous, International Affairs, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict, Youth Culture
Tags: #occupywallstreet, #ows, bert cannavelli, demands, description, guide, introduction, manifesto, movement, occupy the nation, occupy wall street, what is occupy wall street, who
NAM Radio: The Theatre of Armenian Genocide
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 09, 2011
Night Over Erzinga is the adaptation of one Armenian American family's story.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, European, Immigration, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Religion, Top Stories
Tags: armenian, armenian genocide, genocide, golden thread, night over erzinga, san francisco, theatre, torange yeghiazarian
NAM Radio: 10th Anniversary of the War in Afghanistan
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 07, 2011
October 7th marks exactly ten years since the war in Afghanistan began -- the longest war in U.S. history.
Categories: Audio, Immigration, International Affairs, Media, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, South Asian, Top Stories, Veterans, War & Conflict
Tags: afghan, afghan american, afghanistan, anniversary, child brides, decade, fariba nawa, opium, opium nation, tenth, war
Steve Jobs Was an Arab American
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Oct 05, 2011
He was born to a Syrian Muslim father who was living in Wisconsin.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Immigration, International Affairs, Media, Middle Eastern, Religion, Top Stories
Tags: abdul fattah jandali, apple, apple computers, arab american, biography, biological, biological father, homs, islam, jandali, joanne schieble, john jandali, mona simpson, muslim, steve jobs, syria, syrian
NAM Radio: Manufacturing Immigrant Hysteria in America
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 04, 2011
It's never been easy being different in America, what with all the scapegoating, surveillance and hysteria that surrounds "the other."
Categories: African, African American, Arizona Watch, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Caribbean, Chinese, European, Immigration, Indigenous, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: history, hysteria, immigrant, immigration, jay feldman, manufacturing hysteria, manufacturing hysteria a history of scapegoating surveillance and secrecy in modern america, media, scapegoating, secrecy, surveillance
NAM Radio: The Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Oct 03, 2011
Most of us have little understanding of how Agent Orange came to be used in Vietnam & how it is still hurting people & the environment to this day.
Categories: Asian, Audio, Environment, Health, International Affairs, Intersections, Law & Justice, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Science & Technology, Top Stories, Veterans, War & Conflict
Tags: agent orange, american, birth defect, chemical warfare, environment, fred wilcox, health impact, scorched earth legacies of chemical warfare in vietnam, veteran, veteran's administration, vietnam, vietnamese