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April 01, 2015
Another Asian-American Comedy Back on American TV

It’s been two decades since an American television show featured an Asian-American family. So it’s not surprising that Asian-American viewers are excited about the new situation-comedy Fresh Off the Boat, on the ABC network. As VOA's Carolyn Weaver reports from New York, the show is about a Taiwanese-American boy and his family.
March 11, 2015
A 'Whirring Darvish' at NY Armory Art Show

Darvish Fakhr was among artists from Middle East, North Africa whose work was regional focus at this year’s show at famed New York venue
March 11, 2015
A 'Whirring Darvish' and Orbiting Bust of Dictator at NYC's Armory Art Show

Art from the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean was the regional “Focus” at this year’s Armory Art Show, New York’s oldest and largest contemporary art fair. Paintings, sculpture, video and conceptual pieces by artists with roots in Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries were on display and for sale. Two works with a whimsical tilt caught the eye of VOA reporter Carolyn Weaver.
March 03, 2015
NYC Climate Panel's Report Predicts More Heat, Flooding

Report's co-author and project leader sees 'a real threat to our future' and changes that will affect day-to-day life
February 24, 2015
A Filmmaker Discovers Her Biracial Identity in "Little White Lie

Lacey Schwartz grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family, in a town in upstate New York where almost everyone she knew was white. She assumed that she was, as well. Her recent documentary, Little White Lie, tells the story of how she uncovered the secret of her true racial background. VOA’s Carolyn Weaver has more on the film.
February 24, 2015
A Filmmaker Discovers Her Biracial Identity in 'Little White Lie'

Lacey Schwartz grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family, in upstate New York and she assumed she was white
February 12, 2015
Media Critic: Williams Story Reflects Journalism's Personality Push

Recent controversy shows how some contemporary journalists try to create particular images of themselves, Jim Naureckas says
February 10, 2015
Broadway Play Explores Islamophobia, Tensions in Post-9/11 US

'It’s a disturbing play,' Pakistani-American writer Ayad Akhtar says of his 'Disgraced,' which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama
February 04, 2015
'Musician of the Syrian Revolution' Debuts at Carnegie Hall

Pianist-composer Malek Jandali says that through his music, he is trying to 'preserve and present my culture that is being destroyed today'
February 04, 2015
'Musician of the Syrian Revolution' Debuts at Carnegie Hall

Malek Jandali, an acclaimed pianist and composer who grew up in Syria and lives in New York, debuted some of his newest works at Carnegie Hall recently, dedicated to the Syrian people. VOA’s Carolyn Weaver reports.
January 23, 2015
In NYC’s Underground Art Museum, Works to Delight the Passerby

Millions of New Yorkers and visitors ride the New York City subway and commuter trains each day. Along the way, they encounter one of the most far-flung public art collections in the world. VOA’s Carolyn Weaver has more.
January 23, 2015
In NYC’s 'Underground Art Museum,' Works to Delight the Passerby

More than 250 murals, sculptures, bas-reliefs and decorative elements surround New York's subway and commuter trains
December 12, 2014
Films from African Diaspora Celebrated in New York

Films from the length and breadth of Africa, Algeria to South Africa - and many other corners of the world -- are screening at this year’s African Diaspora International Film Festival in New York. It’s the 22nd year for the Festival, founded in 1993 by Reinaldo Barroso-Spech, who is of Jamaican-Haitian descent, and his French-Malian wife, Diarah N’Daw-Spech. More from Carolyn Weaver in New York.
December 12, 2014
Films From African Diaspora Celebrated in New York

From feature-length fiction and documentaries to shorts and animations, cinematic narratives are bound by concern for people of color
December 05, 2014
Many US Cities Hold New Protests Against Police Brutality

Demonstrations started over a New York grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of African American Eric Garner
November 21, 2014
Mama Sarah Obama Honored at UN Women’s Entrepreneurship Day

Sarah Obama, 94, hopes to raise money to build a $12-million educational and medical center in her community of Kogelo, Kenya
November 13, 2014
'Our Lady of Kibeho,' Drama of Faith in Pre-Genocide Rwanda

In 1981, several young women at a religious boarding school in southern Rwanda reported seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary; The play is based on their story
October 31, 2014
'Point and Shoot' Shows American Filmmaker in Libyan Revolution

It sounds like fiction: A young American takes to the road in a motorcycle journey around the Arab world -- and ends up fighting alongside Libyan rebels to depose Moammar Gadhafi. It’s actually a true story, and the subject of an unusual documentary. VOA’s Carolyn Weaver has more
October 30, 2014
'Point and Shoot' Shows American Filmmaker in Libyan Revolution

In a bid to jumpstart his life, Matthew VanDyke bought a motorcycle and drove through the Arab world, filming himself along the way
October 22, 2014
'Fishing Without Nets' a Dramatic Story of Somali Piracy

Story focuses on Abdi, played by Abdikani Muktar, a fisherman off the coast of Somalia, where pollution has ruined the catch

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