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DRUM’s Summer Youth Organizing Institute is a six week long internship for South Asian and Indo-Caribbean youth ages 14 – 21 years. Young people learn about issues that impact their communities from racial, immigrant, education, gender, and worker justice. Through interactive political education workshops, participants begin connecting their lived experiences and struggles to systems of…

Sanwar Ahmed, better known to the Jackson Heights community as Baul Dada or Jhal Muri Dada has been bringing joy to people through his soulful singing and his jhal muri for over a decade.  Earlier this month, at the age of 92, Baul Dada was finally able to return home to Bangladesh after 42 years…