New America Media: New America Now

A Village Called Versailles

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: May 25, 2010

After rebuilding their community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Versailles is threatened by a planned toxic landfill

Caught Between Two Worlds

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: May 24, 2010

Just as Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi was about to leave Iran after reporting there for BBC, NPR, and other news outlets, she was awoken by security officials who said they wanted to interrogate her. This began a nightmarish descent into the Iranian prison system chronicled in Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran.

Country Driving Through China

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, 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

New America Now: The Death of Josseline

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: May 21, 2010

Margaret Regan talks about her book The Death of Josseline, Mai der Vang and Anthony Advincula join Ethnic Media Watch.

New America Now: Between Two Worlds

New America Now, News Report, Sandip Roy, Posted: May 14, 2010

Roxana Saberi talks about her experience in an Iranian prison, Peter Hessler goes Country Driving in China.

Stormy Weather for Lena Horne

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, 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.

Philippine Elections to Go Forward, Despite Computer Glitch

New America Media, Video, Odette Keeley, Posted: May 08, 2010

Regina Reyes of ABS-CBN International-The Filipino Channel explains why Filipino American voters don't want this Monday's presidential elections in the Philippines postponed -- despite technical malfunctions with the country's computerized voting machines.

New America Now: Island Beneath the Sea

New America Now, Audio, Sandip Roy, 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.

New America Now: Trust in Education, Cuban Biodiversity, Doll Diplomacy

New America Media, Audio, New America Now, Posted: Apr 23, 2010

This week on New America Now: Odette Keeley with headlines from New America Media, Valeria Fernandez and Stan Washington on Ethnic Media Watch, Budd Mackenzie talks about girls education in Afghanistan, Cuban scientist Umberto Rios looks at Cuban agriculture, and Curators Melissa Rinne and Alan Pate tell the story of "doll diplomacy" between the US and Japan.

A Jihad for Love

New America Now, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Apr 22, 2010

Parvez Sharma is a New York based Indian writer and filmmaker who is best known for his film on gay and lesbian Muslims in the Middle East, A Jihad for Love. He tells of his travels through transsexual bars and hidden lives as these people fear for their lives.