seeking asian female is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy—an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds online. Debbie Lum, a Chinese American filmmaker, documents and narrates… Read more »
Grammy nominated trumpeter and vocalist Hugh Masekela is touring the United States this month, and this Friday, he and his band are making a stop in Middletown, Connecticut at Wesleyan University in celebration of Masekala’s new album, Jabulani. Some of Masekela’s earliest memories are… Read more »
“Out of the midst of the beautiful Lake Nicaragua spring two magnificent pyramids, clad in the softest and richest green, all flecked with shadow and sunshine, whose summits pierce the billowy clouds.” -Mark Twain On the busy streets of Granada, Nicaragua, it is… Read more »
DANBURY – Western Connecticut State University professor of anthropology Dr. Rob Whittemore will host the 14th annual African Film Festival every Wednesday this February. There will be two showings each Wednesday, from 1 to 2:30pm and 6 to 7:30pm. With the exception of one… Read more »
Dr. George Kain traveled a long road to become a leader in the successful campaign to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut which finally came to fruition in 2012. This past November, he journeyed to Rome to join justice ministers and opponents of capital… Read more »
South Africa, the country of Ubuntu, a country with 11 official languages. We survived the Apartheid era, and now we are making history with our own house music. Music has always played a big part in our lives, and it is still finding a… Read more »
Two members of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty (CNADP) board of directors will have front row seats for the lighting of Rome’s Colosseum on November 29 and 30 in celebration of Connecticut becoming the 17th state in America to abolish the death penalty…. Read more »
Linda McMahon, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate for Connecticut, has been relatively scant on details regarding her political stances, especially when it comes to immigration. After being silent on the issue for most of campaign season aside from a brief mention in an April… Read more »
My story is not too different from the rest of the DREAMers out there. Like many, I migrated when I was a toddler – five years old to be precise. I was born in Mexico City, but my family is from Morelos, Oaxaca. My mother… Read more »
Ever since I can remember, school has always been my main priority. When I was younger I remember seeing my parents worn out from work and telling me “si no quieres trabajar como nosotros toda tu vida, Estudia!” I always had and still have… Read more »
On June 15, a Department of Homeland Security memorandum by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced President Obama’s immigration policy directive, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which goes into effect today. Undocumented immigrant advocacy groups, immigration lawyers, and illegal/undocumented immigrants have been… Read more »
Expressions of Humankind (EoH), a Swedish non-profit foundation supporting photography and writing-focused research and education, is asking the world to take a photograph on Tuesday, May 15 as a part of it’s “A Day” project. A Day is to be a global effort aiming… Read more »
There are a lot of phrases that a young woman does not want to hear, particularly in a salon. “Get out. I don’t want that around me. I don’t like it and it makes me sick,” recounted Milla [name has been changed], 21, in… Read more »
by Leigh Scudder from The Echo You have probably seen your friends posting links to something called “Kony 2012” on whichever social networking site you use. If you haven’t watched the heart wrenching video, I recommend you do. The short film Kony 2012 is by… Read more »
from For Beginners As we enter the third week of Women’s History month, we’re taking a look at the decline of women representatives in Congress. For the first time in thirty years the number of women representing American citizens fell in the 112th Congress. After… Read more »
by Peter Parisi from The Echo WHEN THE DALAI LAMA announced he was relinquishing all political control of Tibet in the spring of 2011, just weeks before the final election for the Kalon Tripa (Prime Minister) was to occur, one of the three remaining candidates… Read more »
by Tausif Noor from Thought Catalog I come from two worlds. One is a land far, far away, where barefoot little girls with gold studs through their noses carry children barely younger than they are on slender hips, coconut oil combed carefully through their plaited… Read more »
by Aurelio Muraca Yes folks, it’s a time of vast change for many people in many ways. Let’s face it, the system that industrial world was built on is kaput. The change is going to hurt, it’s not going to be fun, and it’s happening… Read more »
by Chelsea Coon THE LOUVRE is magnificent, as is Paris itself. One night, over glasses of Cabernet Sauvignon at a night cafe facing the west side of the Louvre, we made it a goal to live there someday… by Chelsea Coon The Louvre is… Read more »
by Amanda Bloom This is not a movie review, nor an ode to the characters of an expired HBO series. This is a world news article about how much can change within a year, and how a poorly reviewed 2010 film chronicling the lives of… Read more »
by Lindsay Chimileski I knew I would be in for an unique education when I enrolled at University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine, but I did not know that a few test-cramming months later, I would be in the Jamaican bush… by Lindsay Chimileski… Read more »
by Joshua L. Durkin The environment gets gassed, the national debt clocks in at $14.3 trillion and no one is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. by Joshua L. Durkin CO2Now is reporting that the atmospheric carbon dioxide reading has hit… Read more »
by Joshua L. Durkin Governor Dannel Malloy visited Rogers Park Middle School in Danbury, there was a great Pillow Fight in New York City, budgets were weighed, Inuits were found to be gaining weight, “Twimmolation”, a Twitter-induced type of humiliation, was added to our modern… Read more »
by Leah Glazer I followed a trail of floating feathers from the 14th Street subway stop to Union Square this past Saturday. The sun beamed down on a roaring mass of people flailing about the park’s lampposts and statues. Feathers and stuffing clung to people’s… Read more »
by Joshua L. Durkin Next month on Obscura Day, people far and wide will get their weird on and join with others who are interested in wonders, strange things, oddities and esoterica. by Joshua L. Durkin Next month on Obscura Day, people far… Read more »