The Adler Youth Group is an outreach program through “The Stella Adler Studio of Acting” that offers a select group of NYC high school students the opportunity to train in a free year-long program.
A new documentary “Quest,” provides a vivid look at race and class in America, and delivers a testament to love, healing and hope. We have your preview.
A new plan aims to help Puerto Rico not only recover from Hurricane Maria, but to also make the island stronger and more self-sufficient than ever before.
A startling study reveals significant racial inequality and income disparities in northern Manhattan. We have the details.
In this post-Recession era of economic uncertainty, financial security has been increasingly elusive for many Americans, calling into question how the labor market can promote wealth accumulation for workers.
In Portland, Oregon, a program called Right to Return aims to atone for the repeated displacement of thousands of African-American families from the city. Amna Nawaz and producer Mike Fritz explore how it's all playing out, as part of our…
We’re headed Upstate to Sharon Springs, New York, where children will have after school programing for the first time in a decade.
The goal of retiring comfortably off the fruits of one's labor has become an increasingly elusive goal for many Americans. Now states are taking the problem into their own hands. In Oregon, a new state retirement program lets businesses hook…
By: Emily Harris and Jenna Tipaldo “I’m extremely excited. Right now, I’m trying to get into a full type of social work to raise some funds. I want to do a book on my life story. But really my whole…
Portraits of immigrants and stories of tolerance – meet an artist who set out to change America’s perception of immigration through stories of tolerance and "Portraits of Immigrants."
By: Richard Eisenberg (Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue.) As someone who blogs about personal finances, I come across a lot of statistics. But I have to say that this…
As a part of our multi-platform public media initiative, “Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America,” we take you inside Monmouth University’s academic exchange program where students get an education on mass incarceration inside a maximum security prison.