In this final episode of On the Road, Bob Holman travels to Israel and the West Bank, where he discovers that Yiddish, which once had five daily newspapers in New...

In this stirring documentary meet Sister Fa, a brilliant and tough-minded 27-year-old rapper from Senegal. As a victim of female genital cutting (FGC), she has devoted herself to ending the...

Hip hop star K'naan travels to Kenya's Kibera, the largest slum in East Africa. There, he connects with local hero, Salim Mohamed, who runs a medical clinic and a soccer...

Mos Def rolls into Rio's infamous City Of God with 4REAL host Sol Guy, where Brazil's #1 rap artist, MV Bill, shows how his program empowers favela youth through the...

Casey Affleck and 4REAL Host Sol Guy visit the Pawnee Nation reservation in Oklahoma to meet leader Crystal Echo-Hawk and her NVision crew. NVision empowers Native youth through hip hop...

(Morocco) Hip hop has taken hold of Morocco in the last six years, and it is largely thanks to H-Kanye. The group of four have forged their style from listening...

(USA/India) The Himalayan Project is MCs Rainman who is Chinese, and Chee Malabar who is South Indian. Both live in the USA, and they are creating some of the most...

(DR Congo) This video is one by three finalists in the World Bank Institute and Jeunesse Musicales International competition, "Fair Play Anti-Corruption Youth Voices." Katya Emmanuel is part of the...

A block of Latin Alternative music with percolating sounds from Novalima, cumbia rap by Bomba Estereo, the Spanish-Southwest fusion of DePedro, retro madness with Mexican Institute of Sound and Cineplexx,...

Enjoy the general wacky business with three animations from Czech Republic, a lighthearted romp with Marie Deulnes of Zap Mama, a drinking song from Goran Bregovic, fabulous fusion from Justin...

Here are examples of how we deal with the various vicissitudes of existence, from the repo man in Lura's "Que Brod Nem jossa" to "Lament" about a soul's final crossing...

(Sudan/USA) The ballots have not been tallied as of this writing, but Sudan is going through the process of nationwide, multi-party elections for the first time in 24 years. There...

(Colombia) This young group from Colombia's Pacific region has really raised a stir, and for good reason. They present a compelling blend of urban and rural music-- the rural being...

Josh Norek, Vice President of Nacional Records, discusses how his background in the music business prepared him for his work with Voto Latino in their new Census 2010 initiative. For...