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Lidia Jean KottLJK

Lidia Jean Kott

Lidia Jean Kott is a former producer of the BBC World Service program Boston Calling, and also formerly a producer for PRI's The World.
asylum-seekers sing in a church choir
Religion
How a small church in Massachusetts became a destination for LGBTQ asylum-seekers from all over the world
You step into this container, and connect with someone through video conference, in an identical container, somewhere else in the world.
Arts
How a golden shipping container became one man’s portal to the world
rucks transporting snow are seen on their way to a snow melting plant
Environment
Here’s what more than a month’s worth of snow in Moscow looks like
Kim Høegh-Dam is the founder of Iluliaq Seafood A/S.
Environment
Fishermen in Greenland are doing better than ever. That might be thanks to climate change.
Lydia and her sister at Mass Firearms School, in Holliston, Massachusetts
Culture
Two Greek immigrant sisters, two takes on American gun culture
Darth Vader and Imperial Officer. Costume Design by John Mollo. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Media
The military history behind the Star Wars costumes
David-Jon
Justice
This is a story about the origins of Antifa
Rescue dog Frida looks on while working after an earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico September 22, 2017.
Global Politics
A rescue dog named Frida has become a national hero in Mexico
Lesego Legobane
Culture
He trolled a plus-size model on Twitter. She had the perfect comeback.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un waves to the people during a parade in Pyongyang July 27, 2013.
Global Politics
Who trades with North Korea?
Juan Carrion poses with a statue of John Lennon in Almeria, Spain.
Culture
How an English teacher’s quest to meet John Lennon changed Beatles history
A smoke bomb is thrown at a group of counter-protesters during a clash against members of white nationalist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., August 12, 2017.
Conflict
Understanding the groups President Trump labeled ‘the alt-left’
James Fields Jr.
Conflict
What it was like that day in Charlottesville
A security guard speaks to a group of men at the Olympic Stadium, which is being used for temporary housing for asylum seekers in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 2, 2017.
Global Politics
Montreal’s Olympic Stadium turns into a welcome center for refugees from the US
The Haudenosaunee played Italy on July 21st at the Surrey Sports Center in Guildford, England.
Culture
For the Haudenosaunee women’s national team, ‘lacrosse is life’
fortune cookies
Culture
Cracking open a case of fortune cookie theft
Nice
Conflict
On Bastille Day in Nice, it’s ‘difficult’ to celebrate
Trump pointing over podium, with flags behind him
Global Politics
Researcher says Trump’s assault on the media is a despot-like tactic
Stanley Greene
Culture
The American war photographer who was celebrated in Europe
Donald Trump eats a pork chop
Culture
President Trump’s reluctant foray into culinary diplomacy
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
Global Politics
Trump thinks Australia ‘has better health care’ than the US. He’s ‘right.’
Lula the bear
Conflict
Lula, a bear, and Simba, a lion, have been rescued from the Mosul zoo
MAGA Trump fans
Conflict
After attack on Syria, Trump supporters question his commitment to ‘America first’
Chuck Berry
Arts
Chuck Berry performed in Nottingham because he loved the city’s tikka masala
Team Israel
Sports
The ‘Mensch on the Bench’ might be Israel’s baseball team’s secret weapon
Lydia is a great white shark
Lifestyle
Lydia the Great White shark ‘just kept swimming’ for 36,000 miles
Donald Trump
Global Politics
In Donald Trump’s language, echoes of Russia’s Soviet past
H.R. McMaster
Global Politics
An Obama-era national security adviser argues for diversity as Trump appoints McMaster
Thomas M. Hodgson
Justice
The county sheriff who can’t wait to help enforce Trump’s immigration policies
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marching with other civil rights leaders from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on March 21, 1965.
Culture
To one Jewish professor, Martin Luther King Jr. was a mensch
Tareq Hadhad
Economics
A Syrian family finds sweet success in Canada
John Berger
Arts
For Teju Cole, John Berger was a kindred spirit
Maggie Smith
Culture
This is the official poem of 2016
Donald Trump
Election 2016
After Trump’s victory, a city debates offering ‘sanctuary’ to undocumented immigrants
Tima Kurdi (middle), holds up her nephew Sherwan Kurdi as she welcomes her brother Mohammed Kurdi (R), and his family at Vancouver International airport in Vancouver, British Columbia, December 28, 2015.
Conflict
When Canadian citizens sponsor Syrian refugees, things can get complicated
President-elect Donald Trump
Election 2016
Meet the high-schooler who Donald Trump blocked on Twitter
Trump Tower
Economics
President-elect Trump’s potential conflicts of interest are massive
Day laborers enter a truck after being chosen by an employer at a hiring area in Laguna Beach, California
Election 2016
Trump clarifies who he means to deport, but… they’re already prioritized for deportation
Joyce Karam
Global Politics
This journalist felt unsafe covering Trump’s campaign. Now, what about his presidency?
a man crosses a road in New Delhi, India
Health
Behind Delhi’s thick cloud of smoke? A lot of denial.
Donald Trump
Election 2016
How Donald Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric divided a city
Hillary Clinton
Conflict
How the Arizona Republic is handling death threats after endorsing Clinton
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump
Global Politics
In Mumbai, ‘shock and horror’ over Trump’s statements about women
A boy looks at buildings which were damaged during clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants
Conflict
Post debate, Trump and Clinton are both pretty unpopular in Turkey
Rodrigo Londono
Global Politics
World, why all the referendums?
An artist's impression of the Rosetta spacecraft shortly before hitting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Sept. 30.
Technology
A scientist and her team wish their Rosetta comet probe a bittersweet farewell
Ahilan Arulanantham is a 2016 MacArthur fellow
Justice
This ‘genius grant’ recipient says the principles he fights for aren’t complicated
Suud Olat is a refugee advocate in St. Cloud, Minnesota
Conflict
Despite discrimination and backlash, this Somali in St. Cloud says, ‘I love my state’
Joe Stewart and Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, both descendants of people sold as slaves by Georgetown University, visit the school on September 1, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
Justice
Lessons from South Africa as Georgetown attempts reparations for slavery
A Haitian with symptoms of cholera is transported in a wheelbarrow
Justice
In Haiti, the UN still has to clean up its act
Heli Aomets and Carla Lostrangio are hitchiking through Europe with a red couch in tow
Culture
Why these two women are hitchhiking with a sofa through Europe
A crowd of community members move the coffin of Imam Akonjee
Justice
The Bangladeshi community in Queens is in shock after an imam’s killing
A crowd of community members move the coffin of Imam Akonjee
Justice
The Bangladeshi community in Queens is in shock after an imam’s killing
Who is behind the DNC hack?
Conflict
Who hacked the DNC? The links point to Russia.
Relative mourns over death after military coup in Turkey
Justice
What happens after a failed coup?
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi speaks during the opening of the first and second phases of the housing project "Long Live Egypt", Egypt May 30, 2016.
Global Politics
Egypt deports TV host as Sisi’s crackdown on dissent continues
A sign is seen at the Polish Social and Cultural Association after graffiti was painted on the side of the building calling on Poles to leave the United Kingdom, in Hammersmith, London, Britain June 27, 2016.
Global Politics
Anti-Polish attacks shot up after the UK’s Brexit vote. Is globalization to blame?
Mexico is changing its justice system
Justice
Mexico’s justice system gets an extreme makeover
Pulse Orlando Mass Shooting Vigil
Justice
Remembering friends lost in Orlando shooting