Rupa Marya, singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Rupa & the April Fishes, talks to Sampsonia Way about non-English music in the United States, her work on the U.S.-Mexico border, and her dual life as a musician/doctor.
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This week: Green Party candidate Jill Stein on censorship in US elections, the arrest of Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, China censors Twitter ahead of Communist Party congress, Bahrain revokes citizenships, and new gag law limits press freedom in Costa Rica.
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block we speak with poet Nikky Finney, recipient of the National Book Award in Poetry. Finney is a faculty member of Cave Canem.
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This week: legal bans on protestors in Bahrain; violent retribution against journalists in Somalia; and tensions in Greece between free press and privacy.
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block, we talk with poet Patricia Smith about the relationship between poetry and teaching and the role of the poet in society.
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City of Asylum/Pittsburgh visiting writer Vijay Nair examines the differences in India and Pakistan’s media coverage of cases post-partition of British India.
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This week, freedom of speech on college campuses, Turkey’s press freedom crisis, radio journalist injured in Somalia, and Ai Weiwei’s video censored in China.
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Sampsonia Way presents a slide show of the Human Rights plenary from One Young World conference. The session covered responsibility for protecting human rights.
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On October 18th, the One Young World conference kicked off its 3rd annual summit in Pittsburgh. View a slide show of highlights from conference sessions on Transparency and Human Rights, which included presentations from Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch.
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This week, China holds Ai WeiWei’s passport, Taliban threats to Pakistan media, and the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is released.
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Sampsonia Way's companion guide to City of Asylum’s Exiled Voice of China and Tibet literary event, featuring standout pieces from its three year coverage of exiled and persecuted writers. READ
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