Episodes

  • Anna Coraggio: Love, War, and Sceneggiata in Italian America

    Anna Coraggio: Love, War, and Sceneggiata in Italian America
    Sep 21 2024
    Anna Coraggio’s life story resurfaces seventy years after she ended her recording and stage career and returned to private life, surrounded by her siblings, her nephews and nieces, her spouse and their numerous friends whom they loved hosting at their Brooklyn brownstone. Hers is a multilayered tale of familiar comfort sacrificed by generations for love, for duty, for art, for family values, for what makes us humans in short. Giulio Breviario, her brother-in-law found himself a soldier fighting in North-Africa* during WWII while distrusting the Mussolini regime. He aspired to the American dream and found the way to make it come true. Anna and her family inspire the narration, not because of what remains of her musical contributions, but because they embodied the principles that we share as humans. Our shared humanity explains not only that very different individuals and generations collaborated to realize the podcast but that so many also passionately study and share the knowledge tha
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    22 mins
  • From Queens to France: Teaching Abroad with TAPIF

    From Queens to France: Teaching Abroad with TAPIF
    Mar 27 2024
    Join Sammy Ali and Professor Paul Fadoul as they engage in a conversation with Marina Ramirez, a Queens College graduate, about her extraordinary experience teaching English in France. Episode correction: One does not need a BA to be eligible for TAPIF. See the TAPIF eligibility requirements here: https://www.tapif.org/faq.php
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    26 mins
  • The Way Back

    The Way Back
    Dec 11 2023
    In this episode, three childhood friends (Paula, Zaira and Grazelle) shared an unforgettable immigrant story. A story of how fate brought them together later in life. From learning how to speak English to figuring out how to live in a busy city at a young age. Every immigrant has a story of their own that shaped them who they are today, this is one of ours. - Music: Zapsplat (sound effects), Royalty-Free(music/sound effects)
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    25 mins
  • The Swiftcast

    The Swiftcast
    Dec 7 2023
    On this episode of the Swiftcast, Alessia Pisicchio sits down with Marisa Kratzke to discuss what happened the day(s) of the Era’s Tour Presale(s). One friend succeed ing at getting tickets and another deceived by the promise of the CapitalOne sale left there to be confusion when thinking of how precise you had to be to secure tickets to the show.With the corruption of the presale, Ticketmaster had left thousands of fan s without tickets with little to no explanation. Comparing strategies and talking about what each’s experiences were like in the presale, this conversation is guided through the love of Swift’s music that both will remember all too well. Both informational and truthful, exploring the events that took place during the presale helps those who did not get tickets get a glimpse of what was on “The Other Side of the Door”.
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    13 mins
  • Cured By a Spell

    Cured By a Spell
    Nov 30 2023
    Who needs a doctor's appointment when you have a witch doctor for a neighbor? This episode is based on a true story that took place in the Philippines during my childhood. This interview with my mother led me to dive deep into the history of Witch Doctors and Siquijor Island, the infamous island that leaves locals, travelers and tourists to wonder, is it a form of sorcery or treatment?
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    12 mins
  • Economic Unity and Opportunity in the New World

    Economic Unity and Opportunity in the New World
    Nov 20 2023
    49 mins
  • La Lingua e La Vita

    La Lingua e La Vita
    Nov 7 2023
    Did you know the Sicilian dialect is more common in the US than in Italy?
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    16 mins
  • One Step Ahead of the Nazis: Joseph Sungolowsky

    One Step Ahead of the Nazis: Joseph Sungolowsky
    Oct 7 2023
    Sammy Ali talks to Joseph Sungolowsky about his extraordinary life. Sungolowsky is a Holocaust survivor turned esteemed Professor of French Literature and Jewish Studies at Queens College. Join us as we follow his harrowing journey of survival, resilience, and hope as he outwitted the Nazis, assumed false identities, and even found refuge in a Catholic boarding school.
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    22 mins