NAM Radio: How "Black Mamba Boy" Got His Name
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 31, 2011
A Somali orphan travels from Yemen to the United Kingdom—an immigrant boy whose daughter grows up to tell his tale.
Categories: African, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, European, Immigration, International Affairs, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Religion, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: black mamba boy, england, english, immigrant, immigration, interview, islam, muslim, nadifa mohamed, novel, somalia, somalian, united kingdom, yemen
NAM Radio: Asian-Americans & Motherland
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 29, 2011
Writer-director Doris Yeung's new feature film has an obvious connection to herself: she, too, lost her mother to a murder right here in the Bay Area.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Chinese, Immigration, International Affairs, Multi-ethnic, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: american dream, Asian Americans, bay area, doris yeung, feature, film, hong kong, motherland, murder, san francisco
NAM Radio: Comedian DL Hughley on Campaign 2012
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 27, 2011
He famously got the White House Press Secretary to admit the truth about Iraqi WMD's & his comments on the presidential campaign are just as newsworthy.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, European, Media, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: campaign 2012, cnn, cobbs comedy club, comedian, comedy, dl hughley, obama, politics, president obama, republicans
NAM Radio: John Sayles' Amigo & the US-Philippine War
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 26, 2011
A new feature film portrays the human consequences of the Philippine-American War.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, European, International Affairs, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: amigo, filipinoamerican, film, interview, john sayles, philippine-american war, philippines, review
NAM Radio: The Past and Future of Sudan
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 25, 2011
Here are some of the reasons why American, European, Chinese and other multinational corporations had a vested interest in Sudan's recent split into two nations.
Categories: African, Audio, Immigration, International Affairs, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: amir ahmad nasr, arabic gum, change, corporation, division, independence, natural resources, profit, referendum, south sudan, split, sudan, sudanese, sudanese-american
NAM Radio: Rape and the International Monetary Fund
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 23, 2011
Parallels between what an ex-IMF-head was alleged to have done to a citizen of the developing world, & what the IMF is accused of doing to the developing world.
Categories: African, Audio, European, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Law & Justice, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: developing world, dominique strauss kahn, dsk, global fund for women, imf, international monetary fund, kavita ramdas, loan, loans, nafissatou diallo, rape, raping, third world
NAM Radio: A Transgender Latino's Family Story
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 23, 2011
An ambitious new film covers immigration, imprisonment, and transgender identity in a story about a Latino family in New York.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Front Page, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, Latino, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Tags: bronx, controversy, director, esai morales, film, gun hill road, harmony santana, immigration, interview, judy reyes, latino, new york, prison, rashaad ernesto green, review, transexual, transgender, writer
NAM Radio: Prison Labor and the New Sweatshop
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 22, 2011
Prison labor is the new sweatshop -- a system where highly disenfranchised individuals are forced into labor for the greater profit of corporations.
Categories: Audio, Economy, Law & Justice, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: 21st century, corporation, enslavement, exploit, exploitation, labor, prison, prison labor, prisoners, slave, slavery, sweatshop
NAM Radio: Bill McKibben and the Alaska-to-Texas Oil Pipeline
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 19, 2011
Leading environmental activist Bill McKibben discusses the controversial Alaska-Canada-Texas oil pipeline, known as the Transcanada, in the works.
Categories: Environment, Health, International Affairs, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Science & Technology, Top Stories
Tags: 350.org, alaska, canada, CO2, conservative, environment, farmer, farmers, health, interview, oil, pipeline, planet, radical, safety, tar sands, tar sands project, texas, tim dechristopher, transcanada
Foreclosure & the American Dream: Two Women's Stories
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 18, 2011
Two American women share their story of how the American dream became a nightmare when their homes went into foreclosure.
Categories: African American, Audio, Foreclosures, Latino, Multi-ethnic, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: american, american dream, california, dream, financial, financing, foreclosure, home, homeowner, ownership, recession
Born to Run: The Secrets of Mexico's Tarahumara Tribe
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 05, 2011
Running is one of those sports that hurts so good, but a secretive tribe in Mexico has centuries-old traditions that help people run for hundreds of miles with no pain.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Health, International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Media, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Sports, Top Stories
Tags: born to run, christopher mcdougall, naked, run, running, running shoes, secret, secretive, tarahumara, tribe
Sister Mischief: Young Adult Fiction's New Stars
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Aug 03, 2011
A new book of young adult fiction explores homosexuality and cross-cultural relationships.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Gender & Sexuality, Intersections, Media, New America Now, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: bengali, fiction, laura goode, lesbian, sister mischief, young adult, young adult fiction