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On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge moments after takeoff from Washington National Airport and plunged into the ice-choked...
On a September morning in 1948, a thirty-eight-year-old Albanian nun stepped through the gates of the Loreto convent in Calcutta and walked into the Motijhil...
In 1987, a twenty-seven-year-old Harvard medical student named Paul Farmer made a choice that baffled his peers. Rather than chase a lucrative career in Boston,...
In September 1962, Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez gathered farmworkers into a small hall in Fresno, California, to found the National Farm Workers Association —...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., and plunged into the ice-choked Potomac River during a...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., and plunged into the ice-covered Potomac River during a...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militias swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina stood behind the front desk of the Hôtel des Mille Collines —...
In the 1960s, most Americans with intellectual disabilities lived hidden from public view — tucked away in overcrowded state institutions or kept quietly at home....
Before Dolores Huerta became one of the most important labor organizers in American history, she was a schoolteacher in Stockton, California. Every morning, she watched...
On September 30, 1962, roughly 150 farm workers and their families crowded into a hall in Fresno, California, for a gathering that would reshape American...
In April 1994, machetes and madness swept through the streets of Kigali. Rwanda's genocide had begun, and within hours, rivers of desperate Tutsi families began...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militia swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina faced an impossible situation with nothing but a hotel at his disposal....
On September 10, 1946, a thirty-six-year-old Albanian nun boarded a train in Calcutta bound for Darjeeling. Sister Teresa had taught at St. Mary's High School...
On October 7, 1950, the Vatican officially recognized a tiny new religious order in Calcutta, India. Its founder, a 40-year-old Albanian nun named Agnes Bojaxhiu...
On July 20, 1968, one thousand athletes with intellectual disabilities stood on the infield of Soldier Field in Chicago, blinking under the summer sun. Most...
In the summer of 1962, Eunice Kennedy Shriver opened the gates of her backyard in Potomac, Maryland, and invited children with intellectual disabilities to swim,...
In 1987, a twenty-seven-year-old Harvard medical student named Paul Farmer hiked into the Central Plateau of Haiti, where the village of Cange clung to a...
In 1987, a twenty-seven-year-old Harvard medical student named Paul Farmer stood in Cange, a remote village in Haiti's Central Plateau, and made a decision that...