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Like nearly every child with autism in Morocco, my sons did not have equal access to education, which is the subject of a documentary I am producing.
Use Uber, get a local phone number, and above all, don't schedule more than two sit-down interviews a day.
In Senegal, an imam spreads the word about the dangers of female genital mutilation in an attempt to end the age-old practice.
How important to a story are the very things that make Nigeria different from the U.S.?
An Iowa governor visited China on the heels of Richard Nixon. Today, a cast of Iowans dubs itself the 'Iowa mafia' in Beijing.
With their parents at work far away, the children of the Wang family are raising themselves.
As the kingdom experiences momentous change, women are keenly aware that the weight of history is on their shoulders.
The China-U.S. Demonstration Farm that recently broke ground is a prominent symbol of Xi Jinping's attempt to gently modernize rural China.
The kingdom aspires to be a hub of moderation but in reality remains a conservative, patriarchal society bound by Islamic tenets.
In Pakistan's tribal areas, collective punishment is not an exception, but the law.
Report from North Waziristan, once called the world's terror epicenter.
How Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plans telegraph to Saudis that the era of compromise with conservatives is ending.
Communication Arts, the graphic design magazine, selected "Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica," as June 4's "Web pick of today."
Dawes traveled to Jamaica in the winter of 2007 to record — in both poetry and prose — the lives of Jamaicans living with HIV/AIDS. "Hope" feautures recordings of Dawes' poems and the video, images and voices of those who inspired his writing.
A story from the St. Louis-Post Dispatch covered a classroom visit by Meredith May, in which she told high school students about the Pulitzer Center-sponsored reporting project "Olga's Girls."
Alex Amend, Pulitzer Center
To help celebrate Poetry Month the Pulitzer Center will be posting poems from one of our grantees, Kwame Dawes. These poems come from the project Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica.
Alex Amend, Pulitzer Center
How Magazine awarded LiveHopeLove.com, the interactive website based on Kwame Dawes' reporting project HOPE: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica, with its highest "Outstanding" rating in its Internationl Design Annual Issue. HOW is one of the big three design publications. Download a PDF below to read HOW's take on LiveHopeLove.com.
Kwame Dawes spent months in Jamaica and was inspired by the lives and stories of hundreds of Jamaicans suffering from HIV/AIDS. Join us as we listen to recordings of his poems and songs as well as inspired student performances.
Fight the stigma on November 5 at 8:30 p.m.
Reynolds 2 Common Room Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Coffee and baked goods provided!
A NewsHour poetry segment featuring poet and writer Kwame Dawes aired on Tuesday October, 7 on PBS.
American University will be holding a program titled "The Invisible Face of AIDS". The forum will have personal accounts of people who face ostracism because the are HIV-positive or have full blown AIDS. Through these personal accounts, the organizing party hopes to enlighten people of the discrimination that takes place in health care, educational insitutions and even with in peoples' families.
HOPE: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica, a multimedia reporting project by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, offers undergraduate and graduate students a unique opportunity to explore the issues of stigma, discrimination and HIV/AIDS across disciplines that encompass public health policy, journalism, interactive web design, education, music and poetry.
When: Monday, September 22, 2008, 6 PM to 8 PM
Where:
Busboys and Poets
2021 14th Street NW
Washington , DC 20009
202-387-7638
Description:
When: Monday, September 22, 2008, 6 PM to 8 PM
Where:
Busboys and Poets
2021 14th Street NW
Washington , DC 20009
202-387-7638
Description:
Poet Kwame Dawes and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting introduce HOPE: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica, a multimedia exploration of the epidemic's human face.
Nathalie Applewhite, the Pulitzer Center's Associate Director, will lead online discussions from August 20 - 26 on HIV prevention as part of a New Tactics in Human Rights internet dialogue. New Tactics is an organization dedicated to innovative approaches to human rights issues. Applewhite is one of seven Featured Resource Practicioners who will lead discussions on innovative ways to engage the topic of HIV/AIDS prevention. The other practicioners include:
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