Nishat Kurwa

Vashon Jordan Jr. has been interested in photography for as long as he can remember. Since the day he picked up a disposable camera as a child, he hasn’t looked back. “I consider myself a forward thinker, in the sense of, I’m always looking at moments as these are fleeting opportunities, this is onc…

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A little-known aspect of the juvenile justice system requires young offenders to pay for their own prosecution and incarceration. 

A new movie documents how an Indian entrepreneur created a cheap machine to make sanitary napkins for rural women on the subcontinent. Women whose self-help groups buy Arunachalam Muruganantham’s machine can make more than a dollar a day — close to a global poverty line threshold — selling the pads.

Like the story of Oscar Grant III, John Singleton’s film offered a counterpoint to Hollywood narratives about race

Brilliant.org is an online hub for the world’s most promising young minds to come together, connect, and see how they measure up against one another.

As part of a project commemorating Marvin Gaye’s breakthrough protest album What’s Going On, Youth Radio producer Brandon McFarland was asked to remix Gaye’s raw tracks with lyrics and contributions from Oakland-area youths.

The story of budding love between two Chicana teens, it’s the first narrative feature by a Chicana director to screen at the Sundance Film Festival. Nishat Kurwa of Turnstyle News reports on the movie’s personal and community origins.