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April 16th, 2010
Written by Jane Mersky Leder in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Nothing could have prepared then high school juniors Tyjuan Morrow and Richie Gallant for the eye-opening experience of visiting each other’s school. Morrow, who is black and lived in the projects with his mother and two of six siblings, attended one of the lowest-performing public schools in St. Louis. Gallant, white and Jewish, lived in a comfortable suburb with his parents and younger brother...
January 26th, 2010
Written by Ann Marina in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
Above the crowded, hardwood dance floor, hips gyrate, shoulders shimmy, feet hop and slide to a spicy Latin beat. A long, mirrored wall reflects sparks of childlike excitement in dancing eyes.
It feels like Saturday night at a Salsa hot spot, but it's actually Wednesday morning at the YMCA in Bonita Springs, Florida. In stretch pants, T-shirt, and glittering belly dance belt, Angeli Chin-Franz...
December 11th, 2009
Written by Ann Tierney Prochnow in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Festivals have a rich tradition throughout Asian cultures, whether the festival originated out of a shared agrarian heritage, as a celebration of a successful harvest, or as an opportunity for families to reunite and offer prayers for future health and prosperity. There are ethnic festivals they have celebrated for thousands of years and have become so ingrained into the culture that people may...
December 10th, 2009
Written by Alakananda Mookerjee in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Board the N train at the Canal Street subway station and a 20-minute ride over the Manhattan Bridge (and a maze of underground tunnels) takes one to 8th Avenue in Brooklyn – the gateway to New York City’s lesser-known Chinatown.Territorially speaking, after Manhattan and Queens', it’s the smallest Chinese enclave, but it is by no means, any less Chinese. Locked between 62nd and...
December 4th, 2009
Written by Soumitro Sen in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Lopamudra Mukherjee isn’t very different from most middle-class, urban, American women — balancing a family life with a full-time job, teaching English at a high school in Los Angeles. Yet when you see her among people from her native India, — draped in embroidered silk, her wrists radiant with golden bangles and a prominent maroon dot in the middle of her forehead — you see that there are,...
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