The singer reflects on performing Roma music as a non-Roma artist, facing prejudice and earning trust within the community.
KOSICE, Slovakia (Reuters) - For factory worker Milan Turtak, the smoke-blackened buildings, sidewalks littered with garbage and extension cords hooked between apartment windows highlight the poverty ...
Roma women working with the Omama program read to children. (Photo provided by the author) Lunik IX is the largest Roma settlement in Slovakia. Pope Francis visited it today as part of his apostolic ...
KOSICE, Slovakia (AP) — Pope Francis on Tuesday urged Slovakia’s Roma to integrate better into the mainstream as he met with the country’s most socially excluded minority group, who have long suffered ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
According to the World Bank's Policy Advice on the Integration of Roma in the Slovak Republic [en, .pdf], published in July 2012, “there are about 320,000 people or 72,000 [Roma] families [in Slovakia ...
IN SLOVAKIA, Roma music and especially Roma songs have quite a long and vivid tradition. During the twentieth century they started to fade into oblivion, even among Roma themselves, under the ...