The glamourous world of New York City fashion may not seem like fertile ground for a bold political statement about immigration, but designer Prabal Gurung chose to use the runway at New York Fashion week to remind audiences that clothes can convey a powerful message...
Within the next few weeks, the annual lineup of new fall television programming will descend onto the major networks. The roster features plenty of tried and true formats, including courtroom procedurals, family dramas, and of course, sitcoms. But CBS is aiming to put a fresh...
An exciting new festival celebrating immigrants and their extensive endowments to American culture is slated to begin in New York City next month. The first annual New American Festival is scheduled to run the weekend of September 14th and 15th at NeueHouse, an event space...
In a tense political climate, countless myths about immigrant populations are recycled. Many reiterate that immigrants have little desire to assimilate, are less educated than their U.S.-born counterparts, and are a burden on social services. In a new study on the effects of immigration on...
What happens to a musical prodigy who is never allowed to play music? Or even listen to music? That could well have been the fate of Elham Fanous, who was born in an Afghanistan that was still under Taliban rule. The Taliban controlled every aspect...
Fiction - even science fiction and fantasy - has long been used as a means to tell contemporary, real-world stories in a fanciful setting. Case-in-point, Amazon Prime's upcoming series, Carnival Row, is set in a world where mythical creatures have been forced out of their...
Baseball may be America's national pastime, but basketball is nearly just as American – having been invented in Massachusetts by an immigrant from Canada. And, it is undoubtedly more popular, both in the United States and abroad. Basketball has made inroads across the globe, with...
Each year, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a philanthropic foundation that promotes the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding, releases its list of Great Immigrants. This list honors a number of naturalized U.S. citizens, and helps to highlight the tremendous benefits immigration has...
There has been a romanticized view of the American truck driver, dating back decades. "Truckers" are frequently envisioned as all-American (and usually white) men from the South, the Midwest, and, of course, Texas, embodying an American ideal of freedom and individuality. Memorialized in countless films,...
The story of Superman is well known. Launched to earth from his dying home planet of Krypton, Superman gains magnificent powers that he uses to fight for "truth, justice, and the American way!" And, what is more American than being an immigrant like Superman, who...
