The walls of Armando Waak’s Arlington, Va., apartment are filled with black and white photos from his adventures around the globe. Smiling Nicaraguan Sandinistas wearing their Soviet boots and carrying Kalashnikov rifles sit framed next to an American missionary cradling an HIV infected baby in a Haitian nursery. The photos are his pride and joy … [Read more…]
On the south side of Nationals Park, as far as possible from the Navy Yard metro station that most people use to go to the game, a group of baseball fans stand sweating, just outside of a closed parking lot. Inside the lot Oliver Perez’s Maserati and Gio Gonzalez’s Porsche SUV sit parked and empty. … [Read more…]
Being an ethnic minority in Russia is quite different from being an immigrant in the United States according to Fanis Sultanbikov, who has the unique experience of being both. “When you are in Russia, most Tatars will say they are Tatar, but when you are here some of them will say they are Russian.” Sultanbikov … [Read more…]