AUDIO/RADIO (2023/2024)

WBAI 99.5 FM & Documented, New York|U.S:

Top 2 episodes:

  1. Listen: Afghan Asylum Seekers Navigate City Care Alone
  2. Listen: FBI, NYPD, Targeting Chinese Americans for Their Political Activity
  • Episode 1/Pilot:

Listen to Episode 1: archive on WBAI

The pilot episode featured Documented’s Immigration Enforcement Reporter via Report for America, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio.

Background reading for the lead segment: Texas bus trips are still fueling migration to NYC.

  • Episode 2:

Listen to Episode 2: archive on WBAI

Background reading for the lead segment: “”After She Was Nearly Killed in Her New Jersey Apartment, Law Enforcement Delayed Her Path to Justice.”

Guests: Maurizio Guerero  — For ten years in New York and the United Nations, was the bureau chief of the largest news wire service in Latin America, the Mexican news agency Notimex. He now covers immigration, social justice movements, and multilateral negotiations for several media outlets in the U.S., Europe and Mexico. Francis Yanet Mendoza — a 48-year-old resident of New Jersey was nearly killed in her apartment last year. After the incident, she spent eight days in an intensive care unit and a total of two weeks at University Hospital in Newark, where surgeons reconstructed her trachea.

  • Episode 3:

Listen to Episode 3: archive on WBAI

Background reading for the lead segment: Asylum Seekers Lack Functioning Shower in New Brooklyn Shelter for Eight Days and Counting

Guest: Understanding the current wave of African migration to New York City. Guest: – Diane Enobabor, co-founder of Africa Is Everywhere (Previously, BAMSA — Black & Arab Migrants Solidarity Alliance) and a PhD candidate at CUNY’s Earth and Environmental Sciences program. Diane’s research interests revolve around black geographies, Africana and African Diaspora geopolitics, migration & mobility, with more than a decade’s work experience & advocacy in the field.

  • Episode 4:

Background reading on the episode: In the U.S., Haitian doctors and nurses are tasked with doing menial jobs for those who are less skilled and with less experience. This episode was produced but did not air.

Listen to a few minutes from episode 4: on Documented’s IG account

Guest: Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, Caribbean Communities Correspondent at Documented. 

  • Episode 5:

Listen to episode 5: archive on WBAI

Background reading: In the aftermath of the pandemic, the Flanbwayan Literacy Project has served twice as many Haitian immigrant students and expects more to arrive. We situate this story in the context of the number of Haitian immigrants that have arrived in New York and in the U.S. at large over the past three years. 

We also highlighted the Adams’ administration’s shelter policies; an explainer about Uber and Lyft’s $328 million payout to drivers in NY state following wage theft allegations investigated by the Attorney General; a new documentary —  “At the border” captures the humanitarian crisis at the crossroads of the Colombian and Venezuelan border.

Guest: Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, Caribbean Communities Correspondent at Documented. 

  • Episode 6:

Listen to Episode 6: archive on WBAI

Background reading for the lead segment: How a new rule from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration that will benefit low wage workers.

Guest: Amir Khafagy, Documented’s Labor Reporter via Report for America.

  • Episode 7:

Listen to Episode 7: on YouTube or WBAI

Background reading for the lead segment: Newly Arrived Afghan Asylum Seekers Overcoming Obstacles Navigating City Care With “Absolutely No Help”.

Guests: Documented’s Immigration Enforcement reporter, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio. She unpacks her reporting with Documented’s Host, Fisayo Okare. We also hear from Arash Azizzada, the co-founder and co-director of Afghans For A Better Tomorrow (AFBT), and Halema Wali, another co-founder of AFBT — a community advocacy organization founded during the spring of 2021, as the U.S. announced it would be withdrawing from Afghanistan.

  • Episode 8:

Listen to Episode 8: on YouTube or WBAI

Background reading for the lead segment: FBI, NYPD, Targeting Chinese Americans for Their Political Activity

Guest: Rong Xiaoqing, the writer of this investigation, is a New York-based journalist, and an Isaac Rauch Fellow for Documented. She unpacks her reporting with Documented’s Host, Fisayo Okare. She writes for various English and Chinese language publications. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, among other media outlets. She has won multiple awards, and has been a recipient of grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, amongst others.

  • Episode 9:

Listen to a clip from episode 9: on Documented’s IG account

Background reading for the lead segment: In December 2023, NYC will evict more migrant families from shelters. As they scramble to find new places to live, their children suffer and they potentially bounce between schools.

Guest: Documented’s Immigration Enforcement Reporter via Report for America, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio. This episode was produced but did not air due to a break during the public holiday (Thanksgiving).