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'Planet Hip Hop': The music will always be the voice of the people, Samy Alim says
As we wrap up “Planet Hip Hop,” our summer series celebrating 50 years of hip-hop music around the world, H. Samy Alim returns to talk with host Marco Werman about the next 50 years. Alim is an anthropology professor and the director of the Hip Hop Initiative at UCLA.
New York City urges migrants to find shelter elsewhere, but many don’t know where to turn
Wounded Ukrainian soldiers start new journeys on prosthetics
Erol Josué’s new album Pèlerinaj highlights Haiti’s Vodou tradition and the artist’s own pilgrimage
Aïda Muluneh's public art photo exhibit is 'a love letter to Ethiopia'
Artist Yun-Fei Ji grew up during China's Cultural Revolution. He ponders art as 'global citizenship.'
Ji produces paintings using traditional Chinese methods, such as calligraphy and ink painting, to address serious contemporary topics such as migration, the environment and social issues.
New York City struggles to accommodate new migrants
A controversial housing dispute this week reveals a deep strain on the intake system for migrants.
‘Art is the answer to all this’: This Brazilian artist went from fighting fires to uplifting Black portraiture
Growing up in Brazil as a Black man, Dalton Paula said he missed seeing people who looked like him on movies and TV. At 40, he now creates paintings, photos and installations about Black communities. In 2021, he and his partner also turned their home into an art school called Sertão Negro, or Black Hinterland.
Museum exhibit highlights New York’s sacred spaces
The “City of Faith” museum exhibit looks at the New York City's religious roots and immigrant experience, with a special focus on the South Asian community after 9/11. Curator Azra Dawood tells The World what inspired her and why such a discussion is important.
‘Every country gets a voice:’ World leaders convene at annual UN meeting
This week's General Debate at UN headquarters in New York will draw a room filled with big personalities, protagonists and politics.
Why has polio emerged in the US, UK and Israel? A polio eradication expert weighs in.
New cases of polio have emerged in the US and Israel, and the disease has been detected in wastewater in the UK. Oliver Rosenbauer, the spokesperson for polio eradication at the World Health Organization, explains how some of them could be linked to the oral vaccine that's long been used to prevent the disease.
Afro-Andean Funk duo unites cultures through music
The New York-based duo makes music about a wide variety of themes but often come back to songs about Peruvian shamanism.
Colombia’s Meridian Brothers breathe new life into salsa music with the help of a traditional record label
Using a keyboard, a saxophone, a bass guitar and percussion, Eblis Alvarez is recreating the classical salsa sound developed by Latino immigrants in New York in the 1970s and giving it somewhat of a psychedelic twist.
The art of the con: ‘Inventing Anna,’ ‘The Tinder Swindler’ and gender
What is it about Anna Delvey and Simon Leviev and how do gender and gender relations play a role in their schemes?
Musician Weedie Braimah lets the djembe speak for itself
In “The Hands of Time,” Weedie Braimah and his band fuse hip-hop, folkloric music and jazz. The new album tells two stories: that of the djembe and Braimah’s journey to it.