Arts, Culture & Media
PRI's The World
October 02, 2013
Inspired by Philadelphia’s South Asian American Digital Archive, and its project that collects immigrants' stories about their first days in America, we’ve begun gathering similar stories from immigrants throughout the globe. This next installment comes from Vladimir Voina, a journalist from Moscow who has written for Russian and US newspapers. In 1989, he moved to Boston for a journalism fellowship and stayed. He spoke about his early memories of America with The World's Global Nation editor Monica Campbell.
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Global Politics
A Trump dad and his Bernie daughter clash over immigrants' rights
PRI's The World
June 06, 2016
Here's why one immigrant at a Donald Trump rally in San Jose, California, wants the undocumented to return to the countries they came from.
Arts, Culture & Media
Journalist Vladimir Voina on leaving Russia, buying beer, and the 'foolish' US government shutdown
PRI's The World
October 02, 2013
Inspired by Philadelphia’s South Asian American Digital Archive, and its project that collects immigrants' stories about their first days in America, we’ve begun gathering similar stories from immigrants throughout the globe. This next installment comes from Vladimir Voina, a journalist from Moscow who has written for Russian and US newspapers. In 1989, he moved to Boston for a journalism fellowship and stayed. He spoke about his early memories of America with The World's Global Nation editor Monica Campbell.
Global Politics
The State of the Union with The World's newsroom
PRI's The World
January 28, 2014
Tuesday evening The World newsroom watched The State of the Union and live tweeted. Follow the hashtag #worldwatches for ongoing takeaways from our producers and reporters.
Global Politics
What Obama didn't mention in the State of the Union
PRI's The World
January 21, 2015
Yemen? Boko Haram? Syria's massive refugee crisis? All missed the cut in the president's speech.
Conflict & Justice
Women Marines Join Males at the Frontline
PRI's The World
May 12, 2011
Monica Campbell reports on Female Engagement Teams, a first-time experiment by the Marines in Afghanistan to let women join all-male patrols at the frontlines. The goal is to have contact with, and win the confidence of Afghan women.
Books
What's it like to be a migrant farmworker? One anthropologist lived and worked alongside them.
PRI's The World
February 06, 2015
"I’ll never feel the same about berries,'' says Seth Holmes. In “Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies,” he describes the bone-crushing work that he and Mexican migrant workers did to put fruit and vegetables on your table.
Arts, Culture & Media
Fans Remember Popular Haitian Musician Lénord Fortuné
PRI's The World
July 25, 2011
Fortuné was a popular virtuoso of traditional Haitian music and a tireless ambassador of Haitian culture.
Halal Vendor at Ground Zero
PRI's The World
August 03, 2011
More and more tourists are heading to New York's ground zero.
Global Politics
This Syrian refugee family was split apart by new US travel rules
PRI's The World
February 03, 2017
Gasem al-Hamad and his family live in California, safe from the war in Syria. But now Hamad's brother is stuck in Jordan because of President Donald Trump's suspension of the US Syrian refugee program. It's unknown when the family may be reunited.
Arts, Culture & Media
Marines in Afghanistan Escape in a Good Book
PRI's The World
August 10, 2011
Some troops in Afghanistan spend their off hours trying to escape the tensions of the battlefield with books.