City of Asylum’s annual Jazz Poetry Month begins this weekend.
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Tienchi Martin Liao bids farewell to Liu Xiaobo, an outspoken advocate for democracy and freedom of expression in China, who died a political prisoner on July 13, 2017.
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Chinese civil rights lawyer Teng Biao discusses his work and his own journey to activism and advocacy.
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Nigerian writer Unoma Azuah discusses her writing process, spirituality, and her journey from Nigeria to the United States.
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On June 29, 2017, just days before the annual July 4th celebration of American independence and patriotism, the US began implementing a partial version of Donald Trump’s travel ban, restricting entry into the US from six Muslim-majority countries and from refugees without “bona fide” relationships in the US.
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PJ Harvey and ICORN rapper Ramy Essam’s song “The Camp” details the conditions faced by displaced Syrian children in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. Proceeds from the sale of the song will be donated to the Beyond Association, a NGO which imrpoves the conditions of refugees in Lebanon, like those in Bekaa Valley.
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For the second annual World Refugee Day, cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards illustrates the impossible position of refugees, trapped between violence at home and unwelcoming new governments.
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