Arun Venugopal appears in the following:
Arranged Marriage and Micropolis
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Arun Venugopal, reporter and the creator of Micropolis—WNYC’s multi-platform series examining race, sexuality, religion, street life and other issues that define New York City—explores the old-fashioned practice of arranged marriage. He’ll be joined by Fraidy Reiss, who founded Unchained At Last, an organization to help women leave their arranged marriages, as she herself did.
The Dark Side of Fair Skin
Monday, April 07, 2014
Micropolis: The Color of Skin
Monday, April 07, 2014
Millions of women around the world use skin-lightening creams. Arun Venugopal, WNYC reporter, discusses the different attitudes towards cosmetics and race and his reporting for the new series, Micropolis.
Talib Kweli in Conversation
Monday, April 07, 2014
Arun Venugopal speaks with Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli about music, memories and the good and bad of gentrification.
The Case for Arranged Marriage
Monday, April 07, 2014
Could it be that your family knows better than you when it comes to your love life?
See The Streets Through an Ex-Con's Eyes
Monday, April 07, 2014
Alvin Entzminger, an ex-con and a long-time Central Harlem resident, shows you what you're overloooking.
Funny or Racist?
Monday, April 07, 2014
Reporter Arun Venugopal talks to Amber Ruffin, writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers, about how comedy is subverting racial stereotypes.
One Indian Man Eats and Tells
Monday, April 07, 2014
As a South Asian growing up in Texas, Arun Venugopal never thought twice about eating with his hands while at home but in public in front of his friends and strangers alike, it was a different story. Arun hits Wall Street to see if this taboo of his childhood is still relevant in NYC today.
Fight the Pigmentocracy
Monday, April 07, 2014
Video blogger Franchesca Ramsey talks with Arun Venugopal about how African Americans and South Asians view pigment.
Aspiring to the Middle Class? Check out the Bronx
Friday, January 10, 2014
Trying to stake a claim to the ever-shrinking American middle class? Paul Bhola, who lives in the northernmost neighborhood in the five boroughs, says it can be done — if you're ready to make some sacrifices.
On Snow Response, Mayor de Blasio Earns High Praise
Friday, January 03, 2014
It was his first week on the job and his first big test. How well did New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio handle the snow storm? Overall, the reviews are fairly positive.
How Far Will the Indian Diplomatic Face-Off Go?
Friday, December 20, 2013
India's response to the arrest of one of its New York consular officials has been so overheated — and so willfully oblivious to a pattern of labor issues — it makes one wonder how far this international face-off will go.
Which Neighborhood Has the Most Immigrants? It's Not Chinatown.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
The city's foreign-born population has crossed the 3 million mark, a figure without precedent in municipal history and indicative of a decades-long metamorphosis of New York's character.
MICROPOLIS: Are Ethnic Enclaves Bad for Immigrants?
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Bill Bratton—the First Time He Was NYPD Commissioner
Friday, December 06, 2013
Bloomberg Says His Budget is Both Balanced and 'Historic'
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Mayor Bloomberg announced that the city had balanced its budget, in what he claimed was "the first time in modern memory" that an incoming mayor wouldn't have to close a deficit.
Residents Say High-Rise Has No Place Near Brooklyn Bridge
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Residents of the South Street Seaport area voiced strong opposition Tuesday evening to a proposed redevelopment plan that would result in a high-rise in the neighborhood.
Cuomo Pushes More Homeowners to Leave Flood Zones
Monday, November 18, 2013
Governor Cuomo expanded a program to de-populate the state's most vulnerable flood zones by offering buyouts to 129 homeowners in Staten Island.
New York Nurses Deploy for the Philippines
Sunday, November 17, 2013
150 of New York's nurses are heading to the Philippines to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan - many of them Filipino-Americans.
Filipino New Yorkers Organize Haiyan Relief
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Filipino New Yorkers gathered Wednesday in Woodside, Queens in solidarity with the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
