Arab Americans have been in the U.S. since before its founding but are often treated with suspicion. On this episode of Riz Khan we look at the challenges facing many arab americans today and ask a bigger question: It is often said that America is a nation of immigrants but what does it take to actually become American and succeed?
Arab Americans have been in the U.S. since before its founding but are often treated with suspicion. On this episode of Riz Khan we look at the challenges facing many arab americans today and ask a bigger question: It is often said that America is a nation of immigrants but what does it take to actually become Ameriacn and succeed?
The native American community statisticlaly suffers more medical problems that the rest of the US. Their infant mortaltiy rate is 40 per cent higher, and they’re twice as likeyl to die from diabetes.
Tom Ackerman travelled to one town in the state of South Dakota to see just how acute the problem is.
Centuries of mistreatment at the hands of Washington have left most native Americans living on isolated reservations.
According to the latest government figures, there are nearly three million native Americans living in the US. The vast mjaority live west of the Mississippi River.
The Sioux nation in the state of South Daokta is America’s fuorth largest tribe. And now they’re fighting to take back land which they say the US stole from them more than a century ago.
Tom Ackerman has more from the Black Hills in the US state of South Dakota.
As a result of Turkish persecution and a diaspora early in the 20th century, only one-in-five people of Armenian descent worldwide lives in their ancestral homeland.
The large Armenian-American community has grave doubts about the thawing of relations with Turkey. Cath Turner reports.