by | Jun 6, 2016 12:28 pm | Comments (0)
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Jackson.
Today’s programs on WNHH radio celebrate summer camp and opera music, look forward to July’s nominating conventions, weigh in on local infrastructure, get some quality mom time in the mix, and revisit New Haven’s hyper-industrial past circa World War II.
by | May 27, 2016 7:46 am | Comments (2)
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Chanel DuBois, 41, at Gateway graduation Thursday.
When Fereshteh Ganjavi came to New Haven as an Iranian refugee in September 2011, she thought that her college degree would come with her.
No dice, employers said as she began the long and tedious search for jobs. She’d have to start from square one.
Continue reading ‘Class Of Strivers Wins Long-Sought Degrees’
by | May 27, 2016 7:18 am | Comments (0)
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The exhibit is bound for DC.
Ten images depict local Hispanic families who appear safe and happy for the moment. The portraits exhibited at Junta For Progressive Action on Grand Avenue belie their fragility, as the specter of family disruption looms over their lives and the lives of countless others every day.
by | May 25, 2016 7:15 am | Comments (0)
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Silva.
“My story begins,” Jeorge Silva said, “at a very young age.”
by | May 20, 2016 7:08 am | Comments (3)
Daly at Wednesday’s summit.
Can the Muslim community really count on the FBI to protect it in mosques, schools, and neighborhoods as racial profiling and counterterrorism efforts escalate across the country?
Continue reading ‘U.S. Attorney Pledges Civil-Rights Action’
by | May 19, 2016 4:06 pm | Comments (3)
Duc Nguyen had already broken down the lemongrass and shredded it. Now, it was time to add it and some diced onion to the oil that had been heating in the frying pan.
by | Apr 20, 2016 3:23 pm | Comments (6)
Meat Chef Cruz at work at downtown’s new Taste of Brazil.
Tiago Pavuna is very specific about his home country’s national cocktail: It requires one and a half limes, not one or two.
by | Apr 18, 2016 3:39 pm | Comments (0)
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New Haven activists at D.C. demonstration Monday.
As the U.S. Supreme Court weighed the fates of millions of undocumented workers, New Haven immigratnt-rights advocates rallying outside the door sent a message.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Takes Immigrant-Rights Call To U.S. Supreme Court’
by | Apr 18, 2016 7:16 am | Comments (2)
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Proclaiming “Education is an opportunity to success!” and “All human beings deserve equality and dignity,” 30 students held a candlelight vigil to support a state bill that would allow undocumented students access to financial aid at state universities and colleges.
by | Apr 15, 2016 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Severini.
Egidio Severini has never turned down an opportunity for honest work. Born during the second World War in Cheli, Italy, he had his first informal job ferrying wine from an Osteria to his family’s home, where his mother would mix it with water for him and his brother’s dinner. When the family decided to come to the U.S. in 1954, he found that part of being a young immigrant in total “culture shock” was getting a job — first a newspaper route, and then as a cobbler. By high school, he was on his way to becoming a mechanic.
Continue reading ‘From Cheli, He Found, & Grabbed, Opportunity’
by | Apr 8, 2016 7:10 am | Comments (0)
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Born and raised Jewish in Brazil, Marcia Calisman moved to Israel as a young woman, and again to the U.S. in 2006. When she arrived at her first stop — Old Saybrook, just 20 minutes away from New Haven — she wasn’t thinking about opening a business based around clothing and accoutrements.
Having worked careers in the film and fashion design industries, she’d moved because her husband, Ronen Yur, had found a job designing jewelry for art and craft fairs around the country. As he adjusted to new work, Calisman got U.S. certification as a doula and joined a massage practice, doing painting and jewelry making on the side.
by | Apr 6, 2016 7:57 am | Comments (8)
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Lugo at DeLauro announcement: Arrest the real crooks.
DeLauro introduced a bill to up penalties, enforcement, and recouped wages.
Brothers Axel and Henry Tubac worked for a company installing kitchens. For the first two years they were paid without fail. Then, for six and seven weeks, respectively, their employer stopped paying them.
by | Apr 1, 2016 12:37 pm | Comments (0)
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Andy Warhol with Tennessee Williams.
Today’s broadcasts on WNHH radio uncover new secrets about the artist Andy Warhol, explore mental health in the black community, try to get to the bottom of messy relationships, and more.
by | Mar 29, 2016 12:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Fernando Molina, Atuyuwe.
Arnold Atuyuwe explained a few differences between Truman School in New Haven and his previous school in Malawi: Here, books are not free, computers are everywhere, and teachers don’t hit students.
by | Mar 29, 2016 7:39 am | Comments (0)
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Jefferson at WNHH.
What if, Michael Jefferson wondered, slavery and reconstruction hadn’t ended in new iterations of racism? What if history’s wrongs could be righted, power restored to black hands?
by | Mar 23, 2016 2:52 pm | Comments (0)
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Mansfield.
For Anna Liffey’s owner Patrick Mansfield, the journey to the U.S. didn’t begin in his family’s pub, where eight siblings and extra guests at the dinner table could sometimes feel crowded. Or when a brother and sister moved to New York in the 1980s, opening pubs in Queens and Brooklyn. Or when he traveled 100 miles across Ireland to see Irish rock sensation Rory Gallagher at 14, and realized that the country — and the world — were a lot bigger than his native County Waterford in southeast Ireland.
by | Mar 23, 2016 7:44 am | Comments (30)
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Tuesday night’s crowd signals support for wage raise.
Erica Lewis sobbed as she spoke about moving into a shelter with her daughter despite earning above minimum wage at two home care jobs.
by | Mar 11, 2016 2:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Trinity bartender Paul Jinks pours a stout.
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Beef & Guinness pie.
Shane Carty and Eddie Higgins have a time-tested regimen when it comes to New Haven’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, and it starts with 600 pounds of Silverside-cut corned beef. Beef, specifically, that has traveled from the hindquarters of East Coast cattle through a New York supplier, to The Trinity Bar & Restaurant’s Orange Street kitchen.
Continue reading ‘For St. Pat’s, Dublin With A Side Of Elm City’
by | Mar 9, 2016 1:30 pm | Comments (1)
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Immigrant-rights protesters at City Hall.
(Opinion) “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” Kica Matos intoned from a makeshift stage at the eastern corner of the New Haven Green. It was April 10, 2006, and Matos, then the Director of Junta for Progressive Action, invoked the famous inscription on the Statute of Liberty, calling the “wretched refuse” and “the homeless, tempest-tost” to America’s land of promise.
Supporters of comprehensive immigration reform rallied around the country in cities like New Haven that April day. Although advocates simultaneously pushed local remedies to help the plight of immigrants, national success seemed, at the time, tantalizingly close. Few of us expected that ten years later, the debate about immigration would involve talk of making Mexico pay for a wall along the United States’ southern border and barring Muslims from entering the country.
by | Mar 4, 2016 8:28 am | Comments (0)
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DeSisto.
For Phil’s Hairstyles proprietor Pasquale DeSisto, the journey to successful American citizenship started not with soapy lather and the fine snip of handheld shears, but with six small grocery stores scattered across West Haven in the late 1960s.
by | Mar 1, 2016 2:50 pm | Comments (4)
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The Chaudharys, safely back at the shop.
After cornering a hit-and-run driver in a parking lot, Sajjad Chaudhary wondered: What if he has a gun?
by | Feb 23, 2016 3:26 pm | Comments (1)
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Matos addresses crowd Tuesday.
Three New Haven immigrant-rights advocates went to the White House Tuesday to make a plea.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Immigrant Rights Protesters Arrested At White House’
by | Feb 19, 2016 8:07 am | Comments (0)
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Sourivong.
After immigrating to the United States from Thailand’s Khon Kaen Province, Daraporn Sourivong, who goes by the nickname “Pook,” opened Jeera Thai in 2011. There, she’s been serving what she calls her specially “healthy” brand of Thai food since.
by | Feb 16, 2016 4:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Whole G’s Corazzini at the WNHH studio.
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Fresh from Whole G’s oven.
Some people called him “Andrea.” Some called him “Andres.”
The kidnappers knew him as Andres. They knew where to find him.
Or so they thought.
by | Feb 12, 2016 8:40 am | Comments (0)
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The characters in La Casa Rosa onstage in Fair Haven.
Wearing traditional fringed rebezos, a line of women cradled images of loved ones who had disappeared into the fog of northern migration as they defiantly pumped their fists in the air demanding justicia — justice.