City Comptroller Scott Stringer addressed a lively crowd at the 14th annual Ippies Awards, given by the Center for Community and Ethnic Media at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism to honor the best work of the community and ethnic press in the metropolitan area.
Hakki Akdeniz is a Turkish pizza maker who’s built a miniempire in New York City.
Th first-ever Nepal Day Parade was help in Manhattan on May 22, and drew several thousand participants.
In Flatbush, a mother from Trinidad is joined by her daughter and son in the family roti business.
Two siblings, children of a Guatemalan family, have built a startup in Brooklyn, GoTenna, that connects phones even when there is no Wi-Fi or cell coverage.
In “East of Flatbush, North of Love: An Ethnography of Home,” Danielle Brown, a trained ethnomusicologist, uses music to tell her story of growing up in the West Indian neighborhood of Brooklyn.
A Thai woman helps another by translating during a hospital visit.
First generation Polish immigrants describe what drove them to persevere as entrepreneurs, and talk about the next generations and their plans.
The small Kurdish diaspora in the U.S. has become more active and vocal about violence against Kurds in Turkey.
Dublin-born interior designer Claire McGovern began her American career in San Francisco, but is now mainly based in New York.
The city has launched a new ad campaign aimed at immigrants who may be eligible for DACA, noting that they might also qualify, based on income, for Medicaid.
Large banks in the city have been slow to accept IDNYC as identification, even secondary identification, when holders of the new city ID try to open bank accounts.
A recent Diaspora Summit brought together politicians and concerned Puerto Ricans to discuss the island’s future – and launched the Center for Puerto Rican Studies into a new, more activist role.
Community and ethnic media attended a conference on advertising in the digital age on April 28, organized by the Center for Community and Ethnic Media at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
Thai artists in New York have formed a group to provide each other with support – both as artists and as Thai immigrants.
