In the final part of a six-part series for MSNBC.com, we ask why, instead of standing up for victims of gun violence in places like Sandy Hook, U.S. Representative Robin Kelly chooses to sit in silent protest. We also meet parents who have lost children to see how they cope with their loss by channeling …
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DOCUMENTING WAR, CONFLICT AND EBOLA International video journalist Ben Solomon covers the Middle East and Africa for The New York Times. In the past year, he has spent several weeks in Ukraine, a month in Afghanistan and covered the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone and Liberia. In this special event, he’ll share some of his evocative and emotional video work and discuss his career …
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It’s been 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. And five years ago I sat down with Anthony Suau, who photographed the events as the wall fell. We had an amazing conversation that turned into this Emmy award-winning video piece:
I’ve been reading with great interest the news coming from Nepal (Life and Death Choices in a Himalayan Blizzard) of a freak snowstorm hitting the highest pass of the Annapurna Circuit — a 21-day trek that’s quite popular among backpackers traveling in the region. The storm caught many unawares, and dozens of people were caught up …
ER doctors at Advocate Christ Medical Center try to save the lives of gunshot victims while family and neighbors mourn after a bullet pierces a house, striking 11-year-old Shamiya Adams dead. Produced, written, filmed and edited by Craig Duff with reporter Stephen Franklin. Narrated by Trymaine Lee.
Basketball coach Shawn Harrington struggles to recover from a gunshot wound that left him paralyzed while a high school teacher offers a message of forgiveness to those who forever changed his life. Produced, written, shot and edited by Craig Duff with reporter Stephen Franklin. Narrated by Trymaine Lee.
Youths from the Brighton Park neighborhood say gangs are their family and they would never give them up, while teens in the Back of the Yards neighborhood say it’s better to have an illegal gun and risk going to jail than be shot dead. Produced, written, shot and edited by Craig Duff with reporter Stephen Franklin. Narrated by …
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Interrupters from Cure Violence, formerly known as Cease Fire, try to cool tempers and immediately defuse the conflicts that perpetuate the cycle of violence. And local law enforcement reaches out directly to parolees to give them alternatives to violence. Produced, written, shot and edited by Craig Duff with reporter Stephen Franklin.
In part 5 of the MSNBC.com original series on Chicago and life in a city under siege from guns, we meet a group of men called Brothers on the Block — and their counterpart group Sisters on the Street — who fanned out to the city’s most crime-ridden blocks to make a show of force against violence. …
Here are a few images from my brief visit in to the mausoleum in Karachi of the founding father of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.