Ian Coss

afropop.org Afropop Worldwide | Carnival Goes Digital

centeratwestpark.org OBJECT MOVEMENT Puppetry Festival | The Center at West Park OBJECT MOVEMENT Puppetry Festival on The Center at West Park

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wbur.org 'It Was Just Ours': Roxbury's Community Says Goodbye To Neighborhood Mainstay Sonny Walker's After nearly 50 years, a bar that has become an institution in Roxbury closes on Sunday, and its devoted patrons say it can't be replaced.

afropop.org Afropop Worldwide | Photo Essay: A Ride With Haiti's Carnival Champion, Who Almost Didn't Ride at All Photos of Haiti's 2018 national carnival, from the top of Roody Roodboy's float.

newyorker.com My Best Podcasts of 2017 Some of the shows are intimate and personal; some are revealing and funny; some are educational; all helped me cope with life in 2017.

soundcloud.com Plumage Episode 1: Love is a Battlefield Harvard PhD student Dakota McCoy, who studies Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, asks why birds of paradise evolved to have brightly colored feathers. Then she asks an even bigger question: Why did

pri.org 'For My Ayeeyo': Two young women learn Somali poetry from a distance Somalia is known as a land of poets. But what happens when Somalis are forced to flee their homeland, and settle here in the US — can the poetry live on in their new homes?

clubpassim.org WGBH and GroundTruth present “The New American Songbook”

lifeofthelaw.org Government Ghost 2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in Texas and Puerto Rico have meant that families have lost their homes and in many cases all of their belongings, including documentation and identificatio

closerthantheyappear.fm Closer Than They Appear Podcast He's on a journey to make the future more perfect despite the present tense. Conversations. Confrontations. Conclusions are your own. Season 1 starts November 15th. Subscribe to the podcast wherever you want to listen.

thegroundtruthproject.org Episode 3 | The GroundTruth Project For rapper Masterbrain, it's not enough to make it big in Boston, where he lives. His dream is to make it big in Haiti, where he was born.

thegroundtruthproject.org The New American Songbook | The GroundTruth Project “The New American Songbook” is a five-part podcast series created by Ian Coss and Heidi Shin, and produced in collaboration with The GroundTruth Project and WGBH News. Episodes will be released every other week, beginning September 21, 2017. Essential funding for this project was provided by Mass Humanities and WGBH News. Additional funding was provided …

lifeofthelaw.org Gift and Curse of Music - Haiti's Fight for Copyright As a child, Surge Turnier fell in love with the sounds of the carnival bands that would pass near his house in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Now one of the top music producers in the country, Turnier is faced with the reality that Haitian law offers little protection for music copyrights, and he must decid