Italy toxic land mafia

The window on the high-speed train to Naples, Italy, frames an idyllic picture — rolling hills, sun-covered vineyards, and fertile farmland. But beneath the fertile soil of this region lies something insidious, an amalgam of industrial, hospital and nuclear waste that is spiking cancer rates and spreading alarm across Southern Italy. The setting is Campania, […]

When citizenship was first defined by Congress in 1790, they restricted naturalization to “white persons”. Though specific previsions of the law shifted over time, until the Immigration and Naturalization act of 1952, individuals had to prove their whiteness to be naturalized. During this time, there were 52 court cases in which people from immigrant communities […]

The 239 is a place where artists are chasing the hip hop dream through microphones in closets and judging success through YouTube hits. Motivations are plenty — money, a way out of the hood, therapy, communication, artistic collaboration.In Naples and Fort Myers, Fla., an underground community of emcees, producers, DJs, and dreamers are pushing every day […]

Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July […]

River Park is the historically black neighborhood of Naples, Fla. It was the first area of town — then considered the outskirts — where the black population was allowed to buy property in the 1960’s. Now, the area is nearly in the center of Naples, causing the property values to elevate. Elders in the neighborhood try […]