How to Love Languages You Don’t Even Know
For many people foreign languages are confounding to those who don’t know them. But Jina Moore finds beauty in words she doesn’t know –…
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Violence erupts on eve of #Liberia elections (breaking w/ field reporting & aggregation)
Here’s what we seem to know at around 10:45 eastern time this morning: Al Jazeera (AJE) is reporting three people dead, based on their correspondent’s…
Read MoreGoodbye to a great Great Lakes emissary
The Associated Press reported last night that former US Congressman and, later, Great Lakes Special Envoy Howard Wolpe died on Tuesday. Congressman Wolpe had…
Read MoreWant a doctor to deliver your baby? In Uganda, you have to sue for that
Calling African journalists: Apply to report reproductive health with the Pulitzer Center!
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is putting its fantastic team behind a great new project, supporting four African journalists to cover reproductive health…
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I spent last week in San Diego, at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, talking about women, media, power and peace….
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We Meant Well
Peter Van Buren is not a writer, and he admits as much from the beginning of his memoir, We Meant Well: How I Helped…
Read MoreOn women, media and revolution (or, come say hi!)
I’ve been neglectful of the blog of late, pouring my energies into offline work — or just getting distracted by the physical world? Unsure…
Read MoreThis is worth your time, and perhaps your money
I’ve been neglecting the blog lately — so busy with work, the thing is so insatiable, other et cetera that make me understand why…
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