Bruce Wallace

Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a US Customs and Border Protection processing facility, in Brownsville, Texas on June 18, 2014.

What you missed in US immigration this year

The largest immigration detention center opened. Refugees from Bhutan struggled with depression and suicide. And migrants rode The Beast. These are the stories from 2014 you may have missed.

What you missed in US immigration this year
John Wurdeman, co-founder of Pheasant’s Tears winery in the eastern Georgian province of Kiziqi. He was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and became fascinated by Georgia after stumbling onto a CD of folk music from the country.

How a CD in the state of Virginia led to a wine rebirth in the country of Georgia

How a CD in the state of Virginia led to a wine rebirth in the country of Georgia
Adolfo Carrión campaigns along 116th Street in “El Barrio” in East Harlem. Carrión, a former Bronx Borough President and member of the Obama administration, is running for New York City mayor on the Independence Party ticket.

How New York City's Latino politics are shifting

How New York City's Latino politics are shifting

The Uncertain Road Back for Shan Refugees

The Uncertain Road Back for Shan Refugees

Swiss Trio, Mama Rosin, and the Geneva-Louisiana Connection

Swiss Trio, Mama Rosin, and the Geneva-Louisiana Connection

Bachata: Two Generations Carry on Playing Music from Dominican Republic

Two generations of bachata musicians gathered to pay homage to the classic style of music from the Dominican Republic's rural north. Bruce Wallace went to a performance in New York City.

Bachata: Two Generations Carry on Playing Music from Dominican Republic
The World

The Art and Friendship of Marcel Khalifé and Mahmoud Darwish

Lebanese composer and oud player Marcel Khalifé tours the US paying homage to his friend, the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

The Art and Friendship of Marcel Khalifé and Mahmoud Darwish
The World

Why Chinese Factory Workers Don't Covet Your iPad

Leslie T. Chang spent two years interviewing workers for her book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China Chang thinks Westerns who feel guilty about buying the electronics these Chinese workers assemble are missing the point.

Why Chinese Factory Workers Don't Covet Your iPad

GlobalFest 2012 to Get Colombian Flavor with M.A.K.U Sound System

M.A.K.U is a young band out of the thriving Colombian music scene across New York's East River in Queens.

GlobalFest 2012 to Get Colombian Flavor with M.A.K.U Sound System

'Opika Pende' — Weaving the 78-RPM Magic Again

The Dust-to-Digital label is at the forefront of a new school of record labels that scours the world's music bins to discover, polish and bring to light forgotten music.

'Opika Pende' — Weaving the 78-RPM Magic Again

Joy essential ingredient in party music from rural El Salvador

The chanchona band, Los Hermanos Lovo trace their roots back to rural El Salvador, and they're all about the party.

Joy essential ingredient in party music from rural El Salvador

Salvadoran Chanchona Group Los Hermanos Lovo

The chanchona music is now becoming popular in the US.

Salvadoran Chanchona Group Los Hermanos Lovo

Burmese Diplomat Defects to the US

A long-serving Burmese diplomat ended his career last weekend and has decided to defect to the US.

Burmese Diplomat Defects to the US
The World

Documenting India's languages

India has hundreds of languages and dialects. Audio recordings were made a century ago in an attempt to document them and they have just come to light. Bruce Wallace reports.

Documenting India's languages

Mehmet Ertegun and jazz

Bruce Wallace reports on concerts being hosted by the Turkish Embassy in DC. They commemorate a series of ground-breaking concerts organized in the 1930's by the sons of Ambassador Mehmet Ertegun. Ahmet Ertegun went on to form Atlantic Records.

Mehmet Ertegun and jazz