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Shuka KalantariSK

Shuka Kalantari

Shuka Kalantari is a San Francisco Bay Area journalist whose reports have taken her to Turkey, Cambodia, Canada and across the US. She was born near the Caspian Sea in Iran and raised in Northern California. Shuka primarily reports on refugee and immigrant communities in California and internationally. When she's not doing interviews, she likes to be outdoors or go dancing. Also, one day she will write a magical realism children's book.
Kabul Dreams
Music
Afghanistan’s first rock band wants to build a cultural bridge in the US
Maritza Blandón, a coffee grower in the mountains of Nicaragua, got her first pap smear at the age of 47. She tested posted for HPV and get treatment. Blandón is a single mother. If she died of cervical cancer, no one would be here to take care of her eig
Health
Nicaragua has a cervical cancer problem. A coffee farm is trying to help.
Teen pregnancy in Nicaragua is mostly caused by machismo culture and a lack of sex ed.
Health
Nicaragua’s teen pregnancy rate soars
Franci Machado brings her four-year-old daughter to work every day because she can't afford childcare. She says if she died because she couldn't get chemotherapy to treat her cancer no one would take care of her two children.
Health
Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives
Nieto
Arts
How artists in San Francisco are keeping the questionable police killing of a young Latino alive
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Global Politics
They can’t vote, but it’s not stopping these Latino youth from registering others
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Education
Separate but equal? A school within a school for immigrant students brings help — and controversy.
Diana Gameros
Music
There’s so much more to immigrants than finding the ‘American Dream,’ says singer Diana Gameros
Sonita
Culture
Outside of class, this Afghan teen rapper travels the world to end child marriage
Sonita Alizadeh sings inside of the recording studio at her high school in Utah.
Culture
Once a child laborer in Iran, now a high school student in Utah
Sonita Alizadeh is an Afghan rapper singing about women's rights. She's also junior at a high school in Utah. New to the country, Sonita misses her family, who live over 7,000 miles away.
Culture
Starting school in Utah, wishing home wasn’t 7,000 miles away
Born in Afghanistan, Sonita Alizadeh got a full scholarship to go to Wasatch Academy, a boarding school in the heart of Utah.
Culture
Afghan teen rapper goes from poverty in Afghanistan to eating sushi in the US
Afghan rapper Sonita Alizadeh narrowly escaped a forced marriage at 16 by writing the song 'Brides for Sale.' She recently visited West Oakland, CA, and was surprised that the U.S., like Iran and Afghanistan, has poor neighborhoods and homeless people.
Arts
Afghan rapper escaped teen marriage by singing about it
Shabe Yalda
Culture
Join in on a winter celebration that helps keep the evil spirits away
Irma Vásquez, far right, during a Centering Pregnancy session at San Francisco's Homeless Prenatal Program, which collaborates with San Francisco General Hospital and offers space for the meetings.
Health & Medicine
For some, prenatal care is a community affair
The reporter, Shuka Kalantari, records the sounds of a Persian New Year's celebration at her friend's home. Jumping over a small fire is a symbolic gesture to start a fresh new year.
Lifestyle & Belief
Fire-jumping and eating ‘ash’ — let’s ring in the New Year, Persian-style
Kabul Dreams
Arts, Culture & Media
The Afghan rockers of Kabul Dreams now dream of making it big in the US
Kabul Dreams
Arts, Culture & Media
The Afghan rockers of Kabul Dreams now dream of making it big in the US
Mohammed Shamma, an Egyptian American in Berkeley, contributed to the anthology,"Salaam, Love." He writes about the cultural consequences of his first kiss during a game of spin-the-bottle.
Arts, Culture & Media
Muslim American men share their stories of love and intimacy in a new book
Cho Mei and her parents, refugees from Burma, bought their first Christmas tree this year. Mei says she's even participating in a 'Secret Santa' gift exchange with her family-- something she learned from her Burmese church group in Oakland.
Lifestyle & Belief
These Liberian and Myanmar refugees cook up old, and new, Christmas traditions
Aynaz wears a mask
Conflict & Justice
From Iran to Turkey to Canada, a transgender woman seeks refuge
>Seni Felić took his seven-year-old son, Venice to Sarajevo, Bosnia for the first time this year. Felić says he wants Venice to learn more about his Bosnian roots. (Photo Courtesy of Seni Felić).
Conflict & Justice
Bosnian Refugees Reflect on Syrian Civil War
Arts, Culture & Media
Oakland Singer Fuses Cambodian Psychedelic Rock and Hip Hop
Global Politics
Iranian Musician Comes Out of Hiding for US, Canada Tour
Pakistani-American Raps For Malala Yousafzai
Arts, Culture & Media
Exiled Iranian Musician Mohsen Namjoo
A Hmong woman performs a ceremony
Belief
In California, Hmong shamans work with medical professionals
Conflict & Justice
Middle Eastern Refugees in California Suffer with PTSD