Join us for a panel discussion on March 20th at 6pm on what happened to the media coverage of Darfur over the last 10 years. RSVP required. More info is available here.http://
Our latest eBook with Foreign Policy Magazine was written by Pulitzer Center grantee Peter Chilson. He explains the historical roots of the current day crisis, seen through the lens of his time walking the country, living with families and embedding with military groups. Get the book here http://bit.ly/11kgaqj and see more of his reporting on Mali here.
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Curious about Mali? Pulitzer Center grantee and National Geographic Senior Writer Peter Gwin explains the roots of the current crisis and what’s happening in Mali now. (You can also view the video here.)
Since 2008 Peter Gwin has traveled the region, living with Tuareg families, embedding with rebel bands, hitching rides with smugglers, and following nomad caravans to document the desert’s evolving social and political landscape. Read the resulting work here.
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In the Field: In the Field in Honduras: HIV & The Garifuna
Pulitzer Center grantees David Rochkind and Jens Erik Gould are in the field in Honduras. They are exploring the Garifuna’s use of their culture in fighting HIV—from the recording studio to the dance floor and beyond.
The Garifuna are an Afro-Caribbean people descended from African slaves. They have a unique language, music and culture. Despite being often forgotten in the global conversation on AIDS, the Garifuna also have the highest HIV rates in the western hemisphere.
Follow Rochkind and Gould as they build their stories – we’ll be re-blogging their posts, Tweets and Instagrams here while they’re in the field. The Tumblr posts will aggregate in this feed and their reporting will be on their Pulitzer Center project page.
As always, feel free to ask questions and send us comments!
David Rochkind tweets and instagrams as @drochkind. Jens Erik Gould tweets as @jensgould1. And of course, we’re @pulitzercenter.
Image by David Rochkind. Honduras, 2013.
![[Edward] Ssemwanga, [a disease expert who works at a regional hospital in Mpigi], says that as [malaria] drugs have poured in, led by well-meaning aid groups from around the world, the underlying causes of malaria – poor water treatment systems and housing, and basic facilities that leave people exposed to mosquitoes – barely get a second look. He says: “The problem is broader than people want to believe. They are advocating for programmes like drug therapy but we need to go to the source.”
- Pulitzer Center grantee Kathleen McLaughlin from her story on malaria in the Lake Victoria basin
Image from Wikimedia Commons. Image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/4d5880165579fdef54bc363b1c5083d6/tumblr_mfr7drvlG41qdltkno1_400.jpg)
[Edward] Ssemwanga, [a disease expert who works at a regional hospital in Mpigi], says that as [malaria] drugs have poured in, led by well-meaning aid groups from around the world, the underlying causes of malaria – poor water treatment systems and housing, and basic facilities that leave people exposed to mosquitoes – barely get a second look. He says: “The problem is broader than people want to believe. They are advocating for programmes like drug therapy but we need to go to the source.”
- Pulitzer Center grantee Kathleen McLaughlin from her story on malaria in the Lake Victoria basin
Image from Wikimedia Commons. Image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear.
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“Fake painkillers are one thing, but when lifesaving drugs are faked for profit, they can kill.” - Pulitzer Center grantee Kathleen McLaughlin, from her series on fake drugs in Africa
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Salopek is walking around the world. Find out why, learn how you can follow along, and ask him a question: http://bit.ly/edenwalks #edenwalks
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Opening today, VII Gallery presents a dual exhibit of “iSee” and “Everyday Africa.” Featuring the works of Pulitzer Center grantees Austin Merrill and Peter DiCampo, “Everyday Africa” is humanitarian in its motivations; but rather than draw attention to a specific crisis, we hope this work serves as a much-needed reminder that the mundane and ordinary are ever-present.
September 20, 2012 (All day) to October 18, 2012 (All day)
VII Gallery
28 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery Hours: 10am – 6pm Monday-Friday
On the first Thursday of every month the gallery is open from 10am – 9pm for 1st Thursday Dumbo Gallery Walk.
The gallery is closed on federal holidays.
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For Americans, Africa often appears to be a place of extremes—poverty, wealth, war. But it can also be familiar, ordinary and even boring. With their iPhones, Pulitzer Center grantees Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill try to capture the everyday in Africa.
In Liberia, a journalist living in fear after publishing a piece on female genital cutting. Learn more.
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