High school is hard enough already. Imagine facing a foreign language, culture, and school system. Haitian students at Boyd Anderson High in Lauderdale Lakes paired up with new arrivals after the earthquake to help ease their way. We are playing stories to commemorate the one year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti throughout the month of January. Listen to the story here.
Monday, January 10, 2011
After the earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. government made Temporary Protected Status (TPS) available to Haitians living in the country before January 12. And yet, by government estimates, less than a third of eligible Haitians living in the United States have applied. Why is that? According to immigrant advocates: fees, fraud, and fear. Alicia Zuckerman takes us down the long and winding road to TPS. We are broadcasting stories exploring the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, one year later, throughout the month of January. Listen here.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Rev. Reginald Jean-Mary, of the Notre Dame D'Haiti Catholic Church, narrates what happened in his congregation after the earthquake, and how music helped people to release their pain. This piece is set to a hymn sung by the Notre Dame du Perpetuel Secours choir. Listen here. (Photo by Patrick Farrell, courtesy of The Miami Herald)
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Every year, writer Nancy Klingener looks forward to the annual holiday parade, which showcases all that is weird and wonderful about living in Key West. In December 2009, Klingener sent back the sounds and voices from the parade in her "Letter from Key West." Listen here.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
The ringing of bells is a sound you might associate with the holidays, with majestic church towers or with small European villages. So forget all of that. The bells at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Miami are a little different. Listen to the story by Alicia Zuckerman and Kenny Malone.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Listen as we profile two of Miami's food trucks. One's been in business less than a year. The other for more than three decades. But both AC's Icees and Latin House Grill are cut from the same cloth-- hard work and dogged attention to detail.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Burger Beast is your go-to guy for food trucks in South Florida. Listen to our interview with him here.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
The parking garage at 1111 Lincoln Road is a place to leave your car, or buy a book, or roll out your yoga mat. Under The Sun's Ruth Morris reports on how a parking garage is challenging assumptions about public space.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Head Architect Christine Binswanger talks about the "eleven eleven" parking garage -- why it was so important NOT to build a box, and why the construction team did NOT seek publicity.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Listen as Terrence Riley, the former head of the Miami Art Museum, explains why public spaces are so important. He discusses an example from the book The Catcher In The Rye, and reads from the passage.
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