Alicia Zuckerman

Rare across-the-aisle coöperation in Austin aims to protect the lives of some women who need abortions—and protect their doctors from prosecution.

Adam Gopnik considers how Hitler came to power, and what it tells us about the 2024 election.

Twenty-five years ago, Hurricane Andrew slammed into south Florida. It was the last Category 5 storm to hit the U.S., and its impact is still felt today by those who survived the hurricane.

Blume says her time in Miami Beach in the late '40s was the most important time in her childhood. Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself is a slightly fictionalized autobiography of Blume's life there.

The Scene: Miami | From WLRN's Arts & Culture Desk | A new ballet pairs one of ballet's most sought-after choreographers, with ubiquitous street artist Shepard Fairey.

On a recent visit to her hometown of Miami Beach, Judy Blume went on a walking tour of the spots that inspired her autobiographical novel Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself.

Art Basel Miami Beach, the country’s buzziest art fair, is in full swing. Dozens of satellite events and temporary galleries have popped up during the fair, including “Moving the Stil...

Six months after a massive earthquake shook Haiti, Haitians and Haitian-Americans are still coping with the fallout.

Today, the director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Alejandro Mayorkas will be in Miami to try and clear up some confusion over immigration status for Haitians. Days after the quake, the U.S. government gave Haitians living here what's called Temporary Protected Status, but that applied to Haitians who were living in the United States on or before January 12th — the day of the earthquake. T.P.S. was not given to Haitians who came to the United States after the earthquake.

In Miami, poets create on-demand verses for passers-by on manual typewriters. The project is called the "Poem Depot," and it's the brainchild of the Miami Poetry Collective. Produced by Alicia Zuckerman.

The situation in Haiti has been front page news in the Miami area since the earthquake hit in mid-January. We find out how the Haitian community there is dealing with the disaster on a day-to-day basis. We look at how Haitians in South Florida are dealing with new temporary immigration policies.

Then we turn to artist Edwige Danticat, one of Miami’s most prominent Haitian-Americans.

There are unusual things going on in every city – strange people, curious buildings and local lore. In Miami, public radio journalist Alicia Zuckerman is trying to get answers for the...

Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz are a pair of artists who live and work together in Miami. Their vibrant, room-sized installations look like hallucinations of landscapes -– and they are all built from discarded clothing. The duo keeps their garment ...

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For the last 40 years, Dance Theater Workshop has been a hothouse for new experimental dance and performance art. Artists ranging from Mark Morris to Whoopi Goldberg have performed there. DTW, as it is affectionately known, celebrated its birthday earlier this week with a house ...

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A new exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center traces the history of dance in America. WNYC’s Alicia Zuckerman went to the show and filed this report.

(“Challenge Dance” scene from the movie Tap)

REPORTER: That’s Gregory Hines and Sammy ...