Every week, the Teitel family balanced their Jewish faith and community ties with their grocery store's operations, serving Italian neighbors and maintaining cultural traditions intertwined with survival.
Juan Carlos, waiting outside Home Depot, carries a message on his T-shirt, 'We built this city,' representing hard-working individuals who constructed the urban landscape of New York.
I was born in a small town in the Mekong Delta in 1986. My parents left Vietnam through the Humanitarian Operation program, which helped former re-education camp detainees immigrate to the US.
I start cleaning a waterpark, which is Wings and Waves in McMinnville, where I was hired as custodial. And I didn't know I was hired as a custodial because I didn't speak English...
Anita Menon's creative curiosity and artistic explorations embodied humanity, offering inspiration as she shared Bharatanatyam through the Anjali School of Dance and connected with diverse audiences.
My father studied the Ukrainian artists, activists and workers who defied the Soviet regime and thus faced surveillance and imprisonment. Their resilience offers relevant lessons today.
Sharona Nazarian, the new mayor of Beverly Hills, embodies the American dream as a refugee who overcame adversity to lead with conviction and courage.
I had already spent nearly 12 years studying and practicing, but I realized in the grand scheme of my career, those years weren't that much compared to my future.
My mother reinforced the importance of work as she raised my siblings and me. She is from Mombasa, Kenya, and my stepdad, who raised me from age 2, is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
"Though not for everyone, it's a film that can justifiably be described as epic in ambition and design. And, wouldn't you know, ambition and design are precisely what the movie's about."