New America Now: Don't Ask/Don't Tell, Beatrice and Virgil, Defamation
New America Media, Audio, Posted: May 28, 2010
A deal is reached to repeal the "don't ask/don't tell" policy, Yann Martel generates controversy with the subject of his new book, and Yoav Shamir's documentary examines anti-semitism.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
Tags: anti-semitism, don't ask, don't tell, holocaust, immigration customs enforcement, prison reform
The Death of Josseline
New America Media, Audio, Posted: May 27, 2010
Margaret Regan is the author of a searing collection of true stories depicting the dangerous crossing of the Arizona desert in search of a better life.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
Tags: border patrol, customs enforcement, drug trade, immigration, minutemen
Which One Deserves to Die?
New America Media, Audio, Posted: May 26, 2010
One in ten Asian Americans are infected with Hepatitis B. And that's a gateway disease to liver cancer. Dr. Stuart Fong of San Francisco's Chinese Hospital explains how he's working with Asian Americans to make San Francisco a Hep-B free city.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
Tags: asian american immigration, city awareness, health campaign
A Village Called Versailles
New America Media, Audio, Posted: May 25, 2010
After rebuilding their community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Versailles is threatened by a planned toxic landfill
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
Tags: activists, community rebuilding, environmental disaster
Country Driving Through China
New America Media, Audio, Posted: May 23, 2010
In the summer of 2001 Peter Hessler traveled by car for 7000 miles along the Great Wall of China. He is the author of Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
Tags: automobile, foreign correspondents, innovation, technology
New America Now: The Death of Josseline
New America Media, Audio, Posted: May 21, 2010
Margaret Regan talks about her book The Death of Josseline, Mai der Vang and Anthony Advincula join Ethnic Media Watch.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
Tags: asian americans, border security, community rebuilding, environmental disaster, health care, hurricane katrina, illegal immigrants, pacific islanders
New America Now: Between Two Worlds
New America Now, News Report, Posted: May 14, 2010
Roxana Saberi talks about her experience in an Iranian prison, Peter Hessler goes Country Driving in China.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
Tags: car, china, consulate, earthquake, economy, human rights, indian, iran, prison, technology
Stormy Weather for Lena Horne
New America Media, Audio, Posted: May 11, 2010
Author James Gavin talks about his book Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne. Though Lena Horne was a groundbreaking African American film and musical star, she paid a huge personal price in a life marked by triumph and tragedy.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
New America Now: Island Beneath the Sea
New America Now, Audio, Posted: May 07, 2010
This week on New America Now: Author Isabel Allende discusses her latest novel, Island Beneath the Sea. Her first novel in four years is an addictive stew of race, sex, magic, and realism set in eighteenth century Haiti.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
Can I get a Witness? Church Shooting Redux
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: May 07, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- YO! returns to Richmond Ca. New Gesthsemane Church of God and Christ as community members recount the day young members of their church were targeted by gunman.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
Conservationist Wins Goldman Prize for Protecting Polish Valley
New America Now, Audio, Posted: May 06, 2010
Conservationist and Goldman Prize Winner Małgorzata Górska led the fight to stop a controversial highway project and ultimately helped protect Poland's Rospuda Valley, one of the last true wilderness areas in Europe.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports
Tags: Goldman Prize, Małgorzata Górska, Poland, Rospuda Valley
New Book Looks at Icelandic Immigrant Community
New America Now, Audio, Posted: May 05, 2010
A young woman obsessed with uncovering a family secret is drawn into the strange and magical landscape, language, and history of Iceland. Christina Sunley is the author of The Tricking of Freya.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports