The World from PRX

Bruce WallaceBW

Bruce Wallace

The World
Bruce Wallace is a producer at Gimlet Media. He has reported for PRI’s The World, Radio Diaries, All Things Considered, Marketplace Morning Report, The New York Times Magazine, Al Jazeera America, and The Washington Post.He was born in Baltimore and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and cat.
Politics
Aung San Suu Kyi downplays anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar
Sabina family
Business
The face of Target (and others) in Bangladesh, at 400 pieces an hour
Amna Farooqi
Education
The Muslim who leads a branch of a Jewish lobbying group
AmyYee_1734
Business
Most Bangladeshi garment workers are women, but their union leaders weren’t. Until now.
Letieres Leite and his Orchestra Rumpilezz play at Lincoln Center's "Out Of Doors" in New York City.
Culture
Brazilian orchestra fuses Afro beats with a little Duke
Digital Harbor 1
Education
At one Baltimore school, students are easing racial tensions by learning from each other
Last month around 100 activists associated with Justice League NYC and other civil rights groups marched down historic US Route 1 through Baltimore as participants in an event named #MARCH2JUSTICE.
Conflict
How African Americans and immigrants in Baltimore find common ground in police reform
Grace Lyo at one of the markets she runs in West Baltimore.
Conflict
In Baltimore, neighborhoods come together across cultural lines
House in West Baltimore
Justice
Neglecting Baltimore: My story, too
fatherdaughter
Culture
For Nepalese abroad, ‘you feel so helpless being so far away’
Rafiqul Islam is president of a labor federation based next to the site of the Rana Plaza collapse. In the foreground is a field filled with rubble from the building, and beyond that is the site of the collapse.
Justice
Two years after it collapsed, Rana Plaza is still haunted by the smell of death
AbdulAzis
Justice
These voices from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh are heart-wrenching
“I think I’m blessed in tuning harmoniums,” says Mindra Sahadeo, who is from Guyana but now lives in New York City. “I find joy, actually, in fixing them.”
Culture
Meet the harmonium king of Queens, New York
This Sprite stash can was purchased by a bot that was scouring the Darknet and buying random options. Shipping took almost a month.
Culture
The Darknet is a space for vice — is it also a space for art?
Bob Guild is vice president of Marazul Charters, a US-based travel group founded in 1979 when Washington briefly loosened travel restrictions to Cuba.
Global Politics
These travel groups have bridged the US-Cuba divide for decades
John Wurdeman, co-founder of Pheasant’s Tears winery in the eastern Georgian province of Kiziqi. He was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and became fascinated by Georgia after stumbling onto a CD of folk music from the country.
Food
How a CD in the state of Virginia led to a wine rebirth in the country of Georgia
Amar Bakshi (second from right), the lead artist on the Portal Between Tehran and NYC; and Michelle Moghtader (second from left), the project's development director. Bakshi says his mother and uncle, also seen here, helped out a lot too.
Arts
This New York art installation opens up a new gateway to Tehran
Gisela Chavez-Garcia is an immigration lawyer in New York City. She says the president's immigration plan raises a lot of questions among her clients, but she reminds them that a new president in 2016 could reverse the new changes.
Justice
Obama’s immigration plan leads to scams, rumors and a lot of questions
Julius Kacinskis outside of “Peacemaker,” the pop-up shop on East 20th Street in Manhattan where he sells Vladimir Putin t-shirts that he designed. “People portray Putin as a mean guy,” Kacinskis says, “so we gotta educate people."
Lifestyle
Even if you don’t like Vladimir Putin, you’re welcome at the store where he’s Superman
HongKong_1
Global Politics
Hong Kong immigrants use Broadway show tunes to bring the democracy protests to Time Square
Modi_1
Global Politics
America greets India’s Prime Minister like a rock star, if a controversial one
Sonia Guinansaca and Susana Garcia of the activist group CultureStrike will be carrying these images of crops and animals threatened by climate change in Sunday’s People’s Climate March in New York City.
Environment
When environmental activists march in New York, look for immigrants at the head of the parade
A man purported to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the miltant group ISIS, during what would have been his first public appearance at a mosque in Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet.
Media
ISIS has mastered high-end video production in its new propaganda wing
A recent game of nine-man, a Chinese twist on volleyball, in New York City's Chinatown.
Sports
Bump, set, spike! Check out this Chinese-twist on volleyball that’s a hit in the US
Jayasalini Olga Abramovskih from Russia makes a lap on the first day of the Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race. Runners alternate the direction they go around the block each day to avoid uneven wear on their bodies.
Sports
Why people from around the world come to run around one New York City block
Lifestyle & Belief
Should the Muslim holiday of Eid be a school holiday? New York City is considering it
Singer Ani Cordero is reviving the "nueva canción" style of music from Latin America that combines politics and love-laced folk songs.
Arts, Culture & Media
This singer is reviving songs from the 60s and 70s that brought down dictators
Singer Ani Cordero is reviving the "nueva canción" style of music from Latin America that combines politics and love-laced folk songs.
Arts, Culture & Media
This singer is reviving songs from the 60s and 70s that brought down dictators
Hassan Hakmoun
Arts, Culture & Media
Hassan Hakmoun’s new album evokes the sounds of Morocco
The Villalobos Brothers, a musical group of three brothers from Veracruz, Mexico, sing at the Mercury Lounge in New York City. Ernesto, Alberto and Luis have made their mark on the global music scene, but now they are focusing their songs on immigration i
Arts, Culture & Media
How three violin-wielding brothers mix their music with immigration politics
Courtesy of The Center for an Urban Future
Lifestyle & Belief
For New York City’s aging immigrants, it can be hard to create a community
DJ Drez and Sheela Bringi at the Black Swan Sounds label showcase at The Bakhti Center in Manhattan's East Village.
Arts, Culture & Media
What do you get when you cross British-Tamil pop, avant-garde piano and ancient Vedic chanting? Sheela Bringi
Gordon Grdina with Haram's drummer Kenton Loewen
Arts, Culture & Media
What’s ‘forbidden’ about this avant-Arabic ensemble from Vancouver?
Brazilians are traveling to New York City in record numbers and spending lots of money, including a $1500-per-person New Year's Eve party last year designed by Joao Coelho and Clarissa Rezende.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Brazilians are taking New York City by storm — with their cash
Lifestyle & Belief
They were married in the morning, now this couple makes their first Buddhist offering together
Fatima Barisu, a refugee from Somalia, on the day she arrived to Minneapolis in 2007 to be resettled.
Conflict & Justice
Picturing the lives of refugees in the US, starting with their first night here
Eglise de Dieu, a church in Harlem, has a congregation of around 200 people, most of whom have roots in Haiti. Songs alternate between English and Haitian Creole, with Creole lyrics projected.
Conflict & Justice
Here’s why a court ruling in the Dominican Republic is spurring international protests
Brooklyn-based piano player Richard Bennett.
Arts, Culture & Media
A raga man plays the Hurricane Sandy blues
A tilde added to the sign for the N subway line in Sunset Park, a heavily Hispanic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Arts, Culture & Media
Ride New York City’s N train, with a Spanish twist
Rose and Alfrits Monintja outside of their home in the New York City borough of Queens. The Monintjas are originally from the village of Sonder in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are among an estimated 100,000 people who speak the disappearing language Ton
Arts, Culture & Media
When New Yorker Rose Monintja speaks her native tongue, the memories flood back
Noura Mint Seymali, with her husband Jeiche Ould Chighaly behind her, playing at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn on her first US tour.
Arts, Culture & Media
Blending in a little funk from a Mauritanian musical ambassador
Adolfo Carrión campaigns along 116th Street in “El Barrio” in East Harlem. Carrión, a former Bronx Borough President and member of the Obama administration, is running for New York City mayor on the Independence Party ticket.
Global Politics
How New York City’s Latino politics are shifting
Figures in the shrines represent a multitude of personages from the Burmese pantheon, mixing figures of the Buddha with nat and weikza figures from traditional spirit worship. (Photo: Bruce Wallace)
Arts, Culture & Media
Spirits on the Streets of Yangon
Lifestyle & Belief
The History and Future of Government-Monastery Relations in a Changing Myanmar
Conflict & Justice
Myanmar’s Young Expats Consider Returning Home
Arts, Culture & Media
Composer Kevin James Finds Music in Disappearing Languages
Lifestyle & Belief
The Buddhist Path for Young Men in Myanmar
Arts, Culture & Media
Iranian-American Band The Yellow Dogs Leave Tehran for Brooklyn, and Greater Freedom
Lifestyle & Belief
What’s Fueling the Buddhist-Muslim Clashes in Myanmar
Arts, Culture & Media
Burmese Group Me N Ma Girls Invade New York
Global Politics
Why Rutgers Professor Hooshang Amirahmadi is Running for President of Iran
Arts, Culture & Media
Celebrating the Music of Maqam, From Spain to Western China
Global Politics
Buddhist Morality at Myanmar’s Monastic Schools
Arts, Culture & Media
Change and Tradition in Myanmar’s Mandalay
Conflict & Justice
What Place Will Ethnic Minorities Have in Myanmar’s Future?
Conflict & Justice
The Opposition in Myanmar’s Young Parliament
Business, Economics and Jobs
Burmese Migrant Workers on Edge in Thailand
Arts, Culture & Media
Global Hit Picks for 2012
Magazine Available in Myanmar for the First Time
Arts, Culture & Media
Bachata: Two Generations Carry on Playing Music from Dominican Republic