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Kenny SokanKS

Kenny Sokan

Kenny Sokan was co-op student at PRI's The World for the winter 2016 semester.
The feet of a Tarahumara girl are seen in Guachochi November 30, 2011.
Conflict
Mexico’s indigenous Raramuri have been suffering at the hands of narcos for decades
Icelandic band Kaleo.
Music
Icelandic band Kaleo is taking the music world by storm
John Cho attends the premiere of "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" in Los Angeles April 17, 2008.
Culture
#StarringJohnCho: Fed up with Hollywood’s whitewashing, one photoshop guru is recreating movie posters
BBC World Service presenter Nkem Ifejika.
Culture
Nkem Ifejika explains why he stopped anglicizing his name
Grande Ronde River in Oregon.
Culture
How trade shaped an Amerindian Creole in the Pacific Northwest
Anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman is seen in a picture from the Library of Congress taken photographer H.B. Lindsley between 1860 and 1870.
Culture
Harriet Tubman and her connection to a small church in Ontario
Mokoomba performing at 2016 Africa Now showcase in Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Mathias Muzaza is the lead singer.
Music
Zimbabwean band Mokoomba gives a historical performance at the Apollo Theatre
"Out the Box," done for Red Bull's One Upon A Town project, Kachelhoffer, Western Cape, South Africa 2015.
Arts
Here are three African street artists you should know
In 1888 Katz's Deli was the first Jewish American delicatessen to open in New York.
Culture
Pastrami on rye: A full-length history of the Jewish deli
Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad flash victory signs and carry a Syrian national flag on the edge of the historic city of Palmyra in Homs Governorate, in this handout picture provided by SANA on March 26, 2016.
Conflict
Syria recaptures the ancient city of Palmyra from ISIS
"The exhibit is a metaphor: By donating your flash drive and plugging it into Kim Jong-un’s face, you are helping to silence his propaganda machine by giving the North Korean people a window to the outside world."
Global Politics
Fighting North Korea’s dictatorship through flash drives
Keystone Marker in Intercourse, Pennsylvania
Culture
Wait, you’re from where? 11 towns and cities with suggestive names.
Girl drenched in water
Arts
This isn’t a photo. It’s an oil painting by a Nigerian artist who hopes his works will draw attention to African arts.
Shazia Mirza
Culture
They say laughter is the best medicine. Shazia Mirza is using it as a weapon against ISIS.
Image from 'Sarah: The Suppressed Anger of the Pakistani Obedient Daughter'
Arts
An obedient daughter? Pakistani author acts out frustrations in graphic novel.
Culture
Why a book about reporting in Afghanistan looks like a hit on the big screen
Kenya protest
Global Politics
As America’s presidential race rages, Africans look on and wonder
Comic Republic.
Arts
African Avengers: The Comic Republic is creating a new world of superheroes
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio smiles as South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley speaks to reporters before a campaign event in Anderson, South Carolina February 18, 2016.
Global Politics
In Nevada, presidential candidates face their first test with Latinos
People and Civil Defense members remove rubble while looking for survivors in the ruins of a destroyed Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) supported hospital hit by missiles in Marat Numan, Idlib province, Syria, February 16, 2016.
Conflict
Airstrikes in Syria hit hospitals, killing at least 50 people
Internally displaced people, wait as they are stuck in the town of Khirbet Al-Joz, in Latakia countryside, waiting to get permission to cross into Turkey near the Syrian-Turkish border, Syria, February 7, 2016.
Conflict
Erdogan feels the US left Turkey in the lurch with Syrian conflict
A man talking on his cell phone.
Technology
Yes, law enforcement can spy on your cellphone. The FBI insists it’s not doing it.
Fatima, 11, wants to be a police officer.
Conflict
Syrian refugee girls in Jordan dress up for the future they want for themselves
Culture
Pussy Riot’s new music video takes on Russian prosecutor
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, and Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza speak to the press in Gitega, Burundi.
Conflict
US Ambassador Samantha Power: ‘The match could be laid’ to ignite Burundi conflict
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's "Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)" (1928).
Arts
Frida Kahlo’s breakthrough work is coming to Boston
Ebola Survivor Gorma Dolo, holds an ebola free health certificate at her house in Freeman Reserve, Liberia.
Health
Ebola survivors face lingering health problems
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith
Culture
Here’s who is boycotting the Oscars