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The entrance of Boston College with a prominent sign and students walking nearby.
The World's Global Classroom
Boston College sets up school for first-generation immigrants
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Sacred Spaces
The ‘1975’ project helps Vietnamese refugee families open up about their past
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Sports
Young girls in Kenya find safe, empowering coaches at Nala Track Club
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Arts, Culture & Media
Who was Toussaint L’Ouverture, the namesake behind Boston’s new Haitian cultural center?
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Polyethylene bags are used to protect bananas from pests and blight on a plantation in Costa Rica.
Business, Economics and Jobs
The shadow of the United Fruit Company still reaches across the globe today
a student stands with her arms crossed in front of a domed building on MIT's campus
The World's Global Classroom
On campus, Jewish and Muslim students fear for their safety
The 2015 Kennedy Center Honors Honorees, including conductor Seiji Ozawa, stand on stage during a reception for them in the East Room of the White House, Dec. 6, 2015.
Music
Renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa is remembered as ‘graceful,’ ‘supernaturally’ gifted
Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler, co-hosts, "The World."
Media
The World adds co-host to public radio’s longest-running global news program
Cast members perform during a rehearsal of the opera "Monkey: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable" at the Emerson Paramount Center in Boston, Sept. 20, 2023.
Arts, Culture & Media
A modern take on an ancient Chinese folk tale
Zhayreth, Adriana, Freddy and Freydar Torres sit on the stoop of their apartment in Dorchester.
Migration
With strife behind them, a young migrant family prepares to seek asylum in Boston
Samuel Ike, dressed in the role of Revolutionary War-era African American abolitionist Prince Hall.
History
The history of enslavement at Boston’s Freedom Trail sites is beginning to be told
Karolina Daremyan bikes just six weeks after receiving her new prosthetic legs at Shriners Children's Boston.
Ukraine
How a Boston hospital transformed a Ukrainian child’s life
The ambiance of the Bab al-Yemen restaurant in Boston adds to a unique dining experience for customers, Apr. 12, 2023.
Lifestyle & Belief
At Boston’s first Yemeni restaurant, food, community and tradition are on the menu this Ramadan
The Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center has amplified its social emotional learning curriculum for preschoolers facing pandemic-related challenges.
Education
Chinatown preschool helps families name pandemic-related feelings
Two players from Boston bruins and Montreal Canadiens hockey teams talk to each other on the ice
Montreal Canadiens superfans brace for historic record to be smashed
Aïda Muluneh's "To pursue the ceaseless way," is exhibited on a bus stop in the Boston area. The photograph is part of "This is where I am," presented by New York-based Public Art Fund.
Aïda Muluneh’s public art photo exhibit is ‘a love letter to Ethiopia’
The book includes haunting photos from inside the ghetto, along with its record of the medical effects of starvation.
Warsaw Ghetto’s defiant Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical effects of Nazi starvation policies
Album covers of some of the allbums from artists included in the end-of-year music playlist with recommendations from The World staff. Clockwise, startiing from the top left corner: Adrian Quesada's "Boleros Psicodélicos," Sillvana Estrada's "Marchita," V
Music
A musical journey around the globe 2022, a playlist
woman in park
For labor-trafficked immigrants, T-visas are a lifesaving but flawed relief
Nancy Rose, who contracted COVID-19 in 2021 and continues to exhibit long-haul symptoms including brain fog and memory difficulties, pauses while organizing her desk space, on Jan. 25, 2022, in Port Jefferson, New York.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Long COVID, the search for answers
coach standing and talking
Sports
Boston Nigerians watch with pride as Celtics coach Ime Udoka guides team through NBA Finals
Runners training for the Boston Marathon
Sports
Far from the sidelines of the Boston Marathon, Ukrainian runners keep up their training
A vial of the Moderna vaccine for the coronavirus.
What does Moderna owe the world?
Taiwan-born artist Wen-hao Tien (left) started inviting people from around the world to teach her songs from their homelands as part her exhibit on immigration experiences at an art center in Boston, Massachusetts. 
Language
Learning through singing: This artist wants you to teach her a song in your native language
Cover art for albums of multiple artists included on The World's 2021 music playlist. Clockwise, starting from the top left image: 'Suba' by Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita; 'El Alimento' by Cimafunk; 'Deja' by Bomba Estereo; 'Seeking New Gods' by Gruff Rhys;
Music
Dance with The World, 2021 edition: A playlist
A compilation of six photographs of The World staff on various assignments around the globe including in Ghana, Mexico and Antarctica.
Marco Werman: We are The World
A white man wearing a suit talks in a kitchen with Chinese lettering at the bottom of the screenshot.
US-China relations
Amid increasing US-China tensions, humor is serious business
A large crowd of people are shown with a women featured in the center of the photograph holding a sign that reads, racism kills, mentally. physically. globally.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: How the coronavirus crisis has exposed entrenched health inequities
Personal protective equipment brought to the US through an operation run by Harvard Business School student Sophie Bai.
COVID-19
Harvard grad student creates a new PPE supply chain from China to Boston
Los Angeles smog
Prior exposure to air pollution increases risk of death from COVID-19, new research suggests
Three siblings in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, wave to their their grandmother in Haifa as she joins their Passover Seder via Zoom application as Israel takes stringent steps to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19) April 8, 2020. 
COVID-19
For this year’s Passover Seder, to Zoom or not to Zoom? 
The author's 3-year-old daughter Leila has been occupying herself during the "stay at home" order in Boston amid the coronavirus outbreak by making cards and beaded necklaces for her preschool friends. 
COVID-19
How families around the world talk coronavirus with kids
A woman grabs blue disposable gloves from a box as face masks sit in the frame.
COVID-19
Trump invokes Defense Production Act, but execution is unclear, former DHS adviser says
An overseas Chinese student wearing a face mask
COVID-19
International students displaced by COVID-19 also face headaches with online classes
Man walks as cameras follow him.
Global Nation Education
US researchers on edge as foreign funding comes under increased scrutiny
Polyglot Susanna Zaraysky holds a printout of her brain scan from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology polyglot test. 
Language
Is the polyglot brain different? MIT researchers are trying to find out.
A security sign at Logan International Airport
Against judge’s order, Iranian student removed from US
Dallas Mavericks forward Luka Dončić
Slovenian NBA player Luka Dončić rises to global stardom
An Asian man holds a volleyball on the court
Sports
Will the Chinese American sport ‘9-man’ have to change its strict heritage rules?
Kerma: Statue of Lady Sennuwy emerging, Dec. 16, 1913
Arts, Culture & Media
How ‘the father of American Egyptology’ underestimated what some call the real-life Wakanda
A black-and-white section of a painting of a woman surrounded by men in Puritan garb.
Women & Gender
Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless
theremin
Happy 100th birthday, theremin!
A group of people holding signs gather in front of a courthouse building
Immigration
Legal status for thousands of Liberians in US hangs on court decision
Global Nation Education
Harvard affirmative action case far from over as plans for appeal begin
A woman in a red pheran stands holding an image of a woman in a red pheran
Conflict & Justice
Finding resistance in fashion, Kashmiri creator turns to the pheran
A group of three men are photographed against a world map
Folk trio The Young’uns uses music to question British patriotism
Noam
How comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi became the woman who proposed to MBS
A man and woman hug as a child and another woman look on
Identity
A DNA test connected two distant cousins — and filled out a family history that slavery erased
Drone footage shows large icebergs that have recently broken off the ice shelf in West Antarctica.
If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it would change global coastlines forever
A woman holds up a picture of her father on a cellphone.
Immigration
Uighur restaurant owner speaks out: ‘I should fight for my father’
natural gas flares in an oil field
Climate Change
Lawsuit accusing ExxonMobil of ignoring risks from climate change moves forward
Turkish
Leaders
How women who’ve left Turkey are helping those left behind
A woman is shown walking down a cement staircase in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Immigration
A family split between the US and Haiti dreads looming loss of legal status
A photo taken overhead shows dozens of Muslims praying in a mosque
Conflict
‘It feels like it happened right here,’ says one American Muslim
Shamso Ahmed smiles with red lipstick and a white hijab
Massachusetts gets its first hair salon that’s exclusively for women who wear hijab
A young girl is lit up on a stage with an enormous dark monster behind her.
Children of TPS join marchers in Washington by staging urgent play: ‘Will somebody please help me?’
Portrait of a Myanmar poet wearing a blue shirt.
Arts, Culture & Media
A spoken word poet in Myanmar speaks out against hate and injustice
Alex Bukasa, a Congolese asylum-seeker and former journalist, poses in front of the White House.
Immigration
Last in, first out: Policy change moves longtime US asylum-seekers to back of the line
Two adults sit at the front of an elementary school classroom as children's heads fill the bottom of the frame.
These fourth graders penned climate change poetry inspired by our coverage