Global Voices - Family Portrait in Black and White
Family Portrait in Black and White
Olga Nenya, from a small Ukrainian town, is raising 16 black orphans in a country of Slavic blue-eyed blondes. The reality of growing up as a bi-racial child in Eastern Europe ? a rare and truly visible minority ? is not for the faint of heart. These children always have to be on guard against the...
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When Hari Got Married
Hari, a 30-year-old taxi driver in the Indian Himalayas, is getting married to a girl he has never met but has fallen in love with over the mobile phone.
Air date: 06/17/2013
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Not Another Word
Inside a Middle Eastern home, three generations of women in a family conflict over their plans for the future of granddaughter Lama, who refuses to get married.
Air date: 06/10/2013
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Good Country People
Spanish Town, Jamaica, is one of the island?s oldest and poorest rural communities - it is also a war zone, where ordinary residents are caught between politicians and gangsters. Amidst this backdrop, Blossom Edwards is forced to take over for her Uncle as the family's primary breadwinner by...
Air date: 06/10/2013
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Half of Her
Life on a fourth floor tenement building in New York City?s Chinatown is invasively communal. Chinese immigrants live in a loft that has been divided into blocks of cubicles barely wider than a mattress. Here a very pregnant Mei struggles alone to safely give birth to her child and deal with the...
Air date: 06/10/2013
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Garbage Dreams
Welcome to the world?s largest garbage village located on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. The Zaballeen (Arabic for garbage people) recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect. But now a multi-national corporation threatens their livelihood. Follow three teenage boys born into the business who are...
Air date: 06/10/2013
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