New York City’s 10,000 street vendors play an important and vibrant role in the city's cultural and gastronomic landscape, selling food, artwork and other merchandise. Yet they are often made invisible in the...
Tonight we devote the entire hour to airing stories from the queer Arab diaspora, recorded live from the March edition of Queer Memoir - an NYC-based storytelling event for the...
A new report exposes the impacts of the systematic surveillance of Muslim communities in New York City by the NYPD. Since 2001, the NYPD has been operating a surveillance program arguing that it's an essential tool...
Since its formation in 2008, Red Baraat’s distinctive sound has been attracting energetic audiences to clubs, festivals, and packed college auditoriums worldwide. The 8-piece band blends North Indian bhangra rhythms,...
Many young people in our communities sign up for the military out of desire to protect the country. But what happens when the armed forces fail to protect their own? Private Danny Chen, a young Chinese American from New...
Three weeks after Hurricane Sandy ripped through New York City, many communities are still reeling from the storm's impact. While FEMA and city agencies have been operating in a number of hard-hit areas since then,...
Over 700,000 New Yorkers – overwhelmingly Black and Latino – were subjected to the NYPD’s controversial “stop and frisk” searches last year. One in five of those stops resulted in the use of physical force by the...
This week, the Asian American Arts Alliance convenes Locating the Sacred, a twelve-day festival that brings visual and performing artists into public and private spaces,...
A new report from Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) and the Urban Justice Center reveals that South Asian workers in New York City are consistently underpaid, overworked and harassed at the workplace. To hear about the...
