What Liberia Can Teach the US About Quarantines
They don’t really work. And there are much better, more proven ways to fight Ebola. Jina Moore reports for BuzzFeed News from Liberia. MONROVIA,…
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The Human Face of Healthcare Debates
A documentary chronicles “24 hours. 241 patients. 1 stretched ER” A middle-aged man who lays carpet can’t sleep at night from bone-spur pain. He…
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Watch Where You’re Going — Race, Power, Police and Storytelling
In “Where I Am Going,” an advocacy group enlists the power of visual storytelling to tackle stop-and-frisk The power of short documentary video to…
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After the Uproar
A photographer’s continued work on domestic violence Earlier this year, photographer Sara Lewkowicz caught a moment of domestic violence on camera. Lewkowicz had been…
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The Media’s Favorite Disaster Scare Story
Looting. Almost immediately, the word creeps into the conversation. It’s a word we need to be careful with. Less than 24 hours after the…
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Translating Public Health For Ordianry People
The Envision conference revealed an ongoing disconnect between policy wonks and storytellers It’s 10am, and we’re talking about death. Deaths from disease and neglect—deaths…
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Don’t Blame the Victim, or the Photographer
This week, the Internet got angry at Sara Naomi Lewkowicz. The 30-year-old photographer had the audacity to photograph domestic violence – and to publish…
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Documenting Domestic Violence
Wednesday, as the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act was still less than certain, Time magazine published Sara Naomi Lewkowicz’s photo essay about…
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How US Policy Looks Set to Screw Over the Blind
In law school in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thomas Alieu was smart, determined, and thwarted. “I wanted to become the first blind lawyer in this…
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Who You Calling Poor?
Official figures say 46 million Americans live in poverty. Beyond that, there’s little about poverty that Americans can agree on.
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