“The history of girls is always told as a tragedy. Growing old is a tragedy and so is dying young.”
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Helicopters rescued more than 150 climbers from Mt. Everest yesterday. About 140 million people are in need of immediate help.
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Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti’s notorious dictator, returned home. We caught up with Edwidge Danticat over email to hear about her reaction to his return.
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This photo captures a few Haitian school children smiling and laughing outside of their school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Shot 30 years ago, this photo helps illustrate the lives of the Haitian people before the devastating earthquake that rocked the nation. Life in Haiti has never been easy, but with the addition of this catastrophe the already fragile nation has a lot of work to do.
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When the earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, Elizabeth Hoover had just returned to Pittsburgh from Indiana University to join the staff of Sampsonia Way. In order to understand the changing world of Haitian literature, she reflects on the literary scene was before the earthquake.
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