Sylvia Cunningham is an Associate Editor and Reporter at KCRW Berlin. She first joined the team in October 2017 as a grantee from the Fulbright Young Professional Journalist Program.
Before moving to Berlin, Sylvia worked in New York for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. She also contributed to NBCNews.com, her stories ranging from the impact of Muhammad Ali’s death on the Louisville community, Michelle Obama’s final commencement speech as First Lady, and blood donation regulations in the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida.
Do you ask for your children’s permission before sharing pictures of them? The German Children’s Fund has launched a campaign that encourages parents to pause before they upload.
In a stunt in Berlin on Thursday, Greenpeace environmental activists removed a giant letter “C” from the CDU’s headquarters. The environmental activist group said because of the party’s “weak climate policy,” the Christian Democratic Union no longer deserves the “C” in their name.
Not all 12 of Berlin’s district mayors are on board with taking on the administrative end in the Berlin Senate’s planned “Mietendeckel” (rent control) legislation.
Mobile infrastructure and data protection were two of the many topics discussed at the Grand Coalition’s retreat at the Meseberg Palace.
Ahead of her gig in Berlin, we caught up with Australian musician Nai Palm on her creative upbringing, her battle with breast cancer, and how caring for animals helped her through a difficult time.
On Thursday, lawmakers in the Bundestag passed a compulsory measles vaccination law. They also voted to eliminate the country’s solidarity tax, a tax used to bolster infrastructure in the former East Germany, for 90% of taxpayers by 2021.
One reason for the increase is the scarcity of housing, particularly social housing. Former director of the Federation of Organizations Working with the Homeless, Thomas Specht, told KCRW Berlin that Germany loses more units of social housing per year than it builds.
“Today my fellow Americans and I rejoice with the German people. The wall is no more, but let us not take lightly to the threats to our freedoms, the challenges that we all face,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Berlin on Friday.
“Am Boden Bleiben,” part of the international network, “Stay Grounded,” is calling on activists to block an airport in Berlin on Sunday, November 10. Their demands include abolishing short-haul flights and halting all new airport construction and expansion.
Daniel Flohr, deputy chairman of Unabhängige Flugbegleiter Organisation (UFO), said the strike would affect all cabin crew members of Lufthansa in Germany and all flights going in and out of Germany starting at 00:00 on Thursday, November 7 and going until 24:00 on Friday, November 8.
