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A look at the impact government policies have had on the 80,000+ residents still living in FEMA trailers throughout the Gulf Coast 2 years after Hurricane Katrina.
Many people in Yemen spend their days chewing khat, a leaf with narcotic properties. But as food prices rise around the Middle East, the destructive nature of khat farming is forcing more and more Yemenis into poverty and malnutrition.
Zouheir Alnajjar, a Palestinian who lives in Gaza, takes us through the secret tunnels that connect Gaza and Egypt — a common route for smuggling under the border.
Years ago, Carissa was abandoned in the lobby of the juvenile hall in Fresno. She ran away from group homes and ended up on the streets. Homeless and alone, she begged and stole to feed herself.
An off-kilter look into the practice of infiltrating abandoned places, buildings and spaces. A world of dodging security, alarms and rotten floors. These guerilla historians risk asbestos, junkies and injury to learn more about our forgotten past.
South L.A. is a “food desert,” with few supermarkets and a lot of land in between them. This video chronicles the extraordinary efforts of Healthy Eating Active Communities (HEAC) student Lae Schmidt to obtain the quality and variety of fruits and vegetables she desires.
Perversion of Justice is the poignant story of Hamedah Hasan and her three daughters, a family caught in the web of our nation’s draconian drug laws. Hamedah’s outlandish sentence for her first drug offense shocked her family, bewildered her attorneys and outraged even the Bush-appointed federal judge who sentenced her, calling this “the most grotesque perversion of justice I can think of.”
Because same-sex marriages are not recognized in the United States, certain marital benefits, like the advantage of permanent residency for a foreign born partner, are denied to bi-national spouses. This commonly results in the foreign partner being forced to leave the United States, and their loved ones, behind. Brittany and Joanna’s story is one of thousands.