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Despite new campus rules, Columbia University students vow to continue protests against Gaza war

The World's Global Classroom

Classes have resumed at Columbia University amid new restrictions following last year’s protests and encampments against the war in Gaza. Yasmeen Altaji, a May graduate of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and now a freelance journalist, dedicated her final semester to documenting those protests. Altaji brings the story of one student who is resolved to continue her fight against the war despite new rules limiting protest.

‘Bad Kreyòl’ premieres in New York

Arts, Culture & Media

Meet the Jamaicans who harvest the Champlain Valley’s apples

Immigration

‘Moving and beautiful and hopeful’: 700 international youth musicians gather in New York City for World Orchestra Week

Music
seniors on the street

New York City’s older Chinese American population faces increasing housing challenges, poverty

soldiers in rehab center

Wounded Ukrainian soldiers start new journeys on prosthetics

Ukraine

​​​​​​​Many Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have lost limbs and need to be fitted with prosthetics. A group of soldiers in New York City is receiving treatment, and they’re already thinking about what their lives will look like when they return home.

Cayuga Lake is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes.

A leadership dispute flares in Cayuga Nation amid evictions, arrests and demolitions

Conflict & Justice

The Cayuga Nation has ordered a series of demolitions and evictions over the last few years in western New York, which has stirred controversy within the community. 

A person paints a sign that says "I can't breathe" on a wall with a purple background.

Public art honoring Egyptian American Moustafa Kassem sends universal human rights message

Human rights

“His name will be remembered not just as a failure of US foreign policy, but to remind people that it’s not just him,” says Mohammad Soltan, founder of the Freedom Initiative.

Cover art

Travel takes on new meaning in this jazz pianist’s latest album

Music

Taiwanese American jazz pianist Eric Pan’s new album reflects on metaphysical treks — through the world of the music and within the self.

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer announces to a group of asylum-seekers that they will be crossing illegally into Canada as they wait in line to to enter at the US-Canada border in Champlain, New York, August 7, 2017.

Canada judge rules sending asylum-seekers back to the US violates their rights

Borders

A Canadian judge ruled the bilateral agreement between the US and Canada violates asylum-seekers’ rights because of what happens after people are turned back to the US.

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