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Playing From the Old Heart of Flamenco

Marty Lipp | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Camaron De La Isla, Roma, World Music, Gypsy, Gypsy Kinds, Andalucia, Spain, Flamenco, Jazz, Jazz Guitar, Paco De LucíA, Guitar, Video, Arts News
Marty Lipp

It's been more than fifty years since Paco de Lucía taught himself guitar and stunned the world of flamenco as a child prodigy, then went on to develop peerless technique and controversially reshape the boundaries of the genre.

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Splendido Cinema: Nanni Moretti in the Spotlight, Part One

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: La Vita E Cinema, Caro Diario, Sacher Film, Nanni Moretti, IFC Center, We Have a Pope, Caesar Must Die, Cannes, Nuovo Sacher, Roma, Cannes Film Festival, Sacher Distribuzione, Il Caimano, Culture News
E. Nina Rothe

At first glance, the real life Nanni Moretti could appear quite like the men he plays in his films.

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Not a Travel Film: Fellini's Roma

Network Awesome | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Italy, Film, Roma, Foreign Films, Federico Fellini, Federico Fellini Films, Fellini Films, Rome Films, Fellini Roma, Video, Entertainment News
Network Awesome

It is an idea that Fellini sticks to when putting his vast, multi-colored spotlight on his home city. But like any major metropolitan city, it is only one facet of its massive whole.

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Touching the Untouchables in a Rural Indian Village

Jim Luce | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Sanskrit, Middle Way, Black America, Philanthropy, Mahatma Gandhi, Bodh Gaya, Jharkhand, Bihar, Buddha, Japan, Dalits, Oiww, Martin Luther King, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Jim Luce, Hindu Social Life, Social Responsibility, Prince Siddhartha, International Development, Burakumin, India, Roma, Orphans International Worldwide, Harijan, Dumri, World News
Jim Luce

I have been privileged to visit two "Untouchable" villages while here on pilgrimage in India -- the first about four miles outside Bodh Gaya in Bihar province, and the other about four hours south of here, in the village of Dumri in Jharkhand province.

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Cholera Petition Suggests UN Caused "Involuntary Genocide" in Haiti

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Alexander Pope, Mirebalais, Social Justice, Oas, St. Marc, Water, United Nations, Ijdh, Haiti, Hispaniola, Cholera, Morality, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Reparations, Fadisma, Kosovo Gypsy, Roma, Video, Impact News
Georgianne Nienaber

The United Nations is faced with two substantial legal petitions on behalf of cholera victims in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The actions could not be more different in their demands, tone, jurisdictions and venues.

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Jordan Zakarin

Oscar-Winner Makes Dreams Come True

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Hans Zimmer Sherlock Holmes 2 Score, Romani Gypsies, Hans Zimmer Composer, Hans Zimmer Roma, Gypsy, Ndi, Hans Zimmer Sherlock Holmes 2, Entertainment Features, Hans Zimmer, Roma Gypsies, Roma, Video, Human Rights, Sherlock Holmes 2, Celebrities, Entertainment News

Any time Hans Zimmer begins a project, he panics: no matter how many iconic movie scores he has composed, the Oscar-winner fears he'll be unable to co...

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The Other Side of Reproductive Justice: How Sterilization and Other Forms of Coercion Are Used Against "Unworthy" Parents

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Sterilization, Roma, Forced Sterilization, Reproductive Rights, LGBT Rights, Discrimination, Parenting, Peru-Forced-Sterilization, Politics News
Marianne Mollmann

Coerced sterilization and castration are in many ways no different from other limitations on individual reproductive choice: they violate a number of fundamental rights, including the rights to health, privacy, and physical integrity.

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Romanian Gypsies Seek Dictionary Definition Change

AP | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Roma, Human Rights, Romania, Discrimination, Civil Rights, Minorities, Romany Gypsies, World News

BUCHAREST, Romania -- What's in a name? An insult, according to Romania's Gypsies who are pushing for the nation's leading dictionary to add "pejorati...

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Pope Pledges Support For Gypsies

AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Pope Benedict, Catholic Church, Gypsies at Vatican, Catholic Gypsies, Roma, Roma People, Vatican, Gypsies, Pope-Gypsies, Roma Gypsies, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion News

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI listened to Gypsies recount their way of life at a first-ever papal audience for them at the Vatican on Saturda...

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Hundreds Of Roma Women And Children Flee Far-Right Training Camp

AP | BELA SZANDELSZKY and PABLO GORONDI | Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Roma Persecution, Vedero, Hungary, Roma, Hungary Far Right, Roma People, World News

GYONGYOSPATA, Hungary — Police detained several members of a far-right vigilante group Friday after hundreds of frightened Roma women and childr...

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Poll Reveals Large Number Of Country's Teens 'Racist' And 'Anti-Semitic'

AP | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Racism, Romania Racism, Roma, Romania, Roma People, Europe-Anti-Semitism, World News

BUCHAREST, Romania — Teenagers in Romania are widely intolerant of Gypsies, gays and people with AIDS, according to a new poll that called the r...

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Roma Still Face Challenges Across Europe

Catherine Messina Paijic | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Roma, Gypsies, Gypsy, Roma Gypsies, The Roma, Video, World News
Catherine Messina Paijic

Commonly called "gypsies," the Roma are Europe's largest minority and fastest growing demographic, numbering nearly 10 million. But they are still largely excluded from political and civic life, battling centuries of discrimination.

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PHOTOS: Romani Beauty Pageant Kicks Off In Bucharest

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Romani, Roma, Romani Gypsies, Miss Piranda, Beauty Contest, Romani Gypsy, Romani Beauty Paegant, Slidepollajax, World News

Romani girls donned spangled skirts and sexy tops as they rehearsed dance numbers for the annual "Miss Piranda" beauty pageant in Bucharest. As th...

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Court Hears Case Claiming Woman Sterilized Due To Ethnicity

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roma Children, Roma, Roma Sterilizaiton Case, European Court of Human Rights, Roma Case, Roma Sterilization, World News

PARIS — Europe's human rights court opened a hearing Tuesday into a Gypsy woman's allegation that she was wrongly and forcibly sterilized at a state...

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Buy A Bride: Roma Girls Glam Up For Bridal Market

AFP | Diana Simeonova | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Romanies, Marriage, Roma Community, Roma, Romani Gypsies, Bulgaria, Mogila, Teen Girls, Bride Market, Open Society Institute, World News

MOGILA, Bulgaria -- The first Saturday in Lent feels like any other market day in this tiny village in central Bulgaria, but fruit and vegetable stall...

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Justice Still Awaits Victims of Anti-Roma Hate Crimes in Hungary

Paul LeGendre | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hate Crime, Hungary, Roma, Europe, Fighting Discrimination, World News
Paul LeGendre

Two years ago today, 27-year-old Robert Csorba and his four-year-old son were shot dead as they ran from their burning home in Tatárszentgyörgy, Hungary -- all because they were Roma.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemorated

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bronislaw Komorowski, Jews, Concentration Camp, Nazi Germany, Germany, Wwii, Auschwitz, Israel@Y:World, Roma Gypsies, Poland, Nazi Party, Christian Wulff, Slidepollajax, Angela Merkel, Jewish Life, Adolf Hitler, Roma, World War II, Buchenwald, World News

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) - Germany's president stood in silence Thursday before a gray concrete wall where Nazis executed Polish resistance members at Au...

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On MLK Day, Human Rights Leaders Around The World

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Gypsies, Democracy, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Nobel Peace Prize, Civil Rights, Liu Xiaobo, Women's Rights, Aung San Suu Kyi, Martin Luther King, LGBT Rights, Gay Rights, Russia, Slidepollajax, Roma, Romany Gypsies, World News

Monday marks what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 81st birthday, and though the civil rights icon's legacy is hard to match, he'd likely...

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10-Year-Old Mother A HOAX? Neighbors Say Child Mom Older Than Reported

AP | ALISON MUTLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roma, 10-Year-Old Gives Birth, 10 Year Old Mother Roma, 10-Year-Old Mother, 10-Year-Old, 10 Year Old Mother Hoax, Romania, 10 Year Old in Spain Gives Birth, Spain, Roma 10 Year Old Mom, 10 Year Old Mom, World News

BUCHAREST, Romania — The former neighbors of a Romanian girl who gave birth last week in Spain claim that she is significantly older than 10. N...

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10-Year-Old Mom's Home INVESTIGATED

AP | CIARAN GILES | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 10-Year-Old Mom, 10-Year-Old, Roma People, Romania, Roma, 10-Year-Old Gives Birth, Young Mothers, Spain, World News

MADRID — Spanish social workers have inspected the home of a 10-year-old Romanian girl who gave birth last week to determine whether her baby is...

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Mother Of 10-Year-Old Who Gave Birth Is DELIGHTED

AP | ALAN CLENDENNING | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 10-Year-Old Gives Birth, Roma, Roma People, Romania, 10-Year-Old, Spain, Young Mothers, World News

MADRID — A Romanian Gypsy woman whose 10-year-old daughter just gave birth in Spain says she's delighted to have a new granddaughter and doesn't...

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New York Gypsy Allstars and Selim Sesler at Drom (VIDEO)

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fusion, Turkey, World Music, Gypsy Music, Ferus Mustafov, Serder Ilhan, Gypsy, Vasilis Saleas, New York Gypsy Allstars, Husnu Senlenderici, Selim Sesler, Mehmet Dede, Ivo Papasov, Roma, Turkish Music, Laco Tayfa, Greece, Drom, Romany, East Village, Arts News
Michal Shapiro

You can't confine music to a political border. And with members from Macedonia, Greece, Turkey and, yes, even New York, The New York Gypsy Allstars have continued in that spirit of exploration.

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France Sends Scores OF Gypsies Back To Romania

AP | JULIEN PROULT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gypsy Camps, Equality, Nicholas Sarkozy, Roma, Traian Basescu, Human Rights, France, Romania, Discrimination, Immigration, European Union, Gypsies, Deportation, World News

PARIS — France expelled nearly 100 Gypsies, or Roma, to their native Romania on Thursday as part of a very public effort by conservative Preside...

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French Pass Law To Strip Foreign-Born Criminals Of Nationality

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Migrant Workers, Roma Gypsies, France Immigration, Criminals, European Union, Immigration, French Criminal Law, Romanies, French Immigration, Roma, Eu, Nicolas Sarkozy, Romany Gypsies, World News

French lawmakers passed a controversial new bill that will strip criminals born in other countries of their French nationality if convicted of carryin...

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France's Mass Strikes Are No Tea Party

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marie Antoinette, Pakistan, Strauss-Kahn, Afpak, Carla Bruni, De Villepin, French Revolution, France, Louis Xvi, France Pensions, Sarkozy, Petain, Francois Fillon, Eiffel Tower, Afghanistan, Cameron, Roma, Tea Party, World News
Eric Margolis

Walk down any street in the old part of Paris behind the Louvre, and you see large numbers of unwashed, evil-looking ruffians just waiting for an excuse to riot, loot and burn.

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