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Zambia

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  • Brian Jovo, 14, collects contaminated water from a pool at Kabwe's Black Mountain. Image by Larry Price. Zambia, 2017.
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    Education Resource

    Meet the Journalist: Larry C. Price

    Pulitzer Center grantee Larry C. Price went to Zambia to photograph what might be the world's most...

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    Children, boys and adults work daily, weather permitting, digging rocks out of the slag heaps adjacent to the non-operating lead mine at Kabwe. The larger rocks are piled, crushed by small hammers, bagged, and ultimately sold as building material. The rocks contain up to 5 percent lead and are highly toxic. Locals with no other jobs perform this hazardous work.  Image by Larry C. Price. Zambia, 2017. 
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    PART OF: The Black Death of Kabwe

    Zambia: The Rock Crushers of Kabwe

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    Larry C. Price
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    June 16, 2017
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    Fostina Kasaila Fostina, 11, a 5th grader. With her is Enoch Kasaila, her grandfather. At 4 years of age, Kasaila started showing signs of lead poisoning including loss of memory and lethargy. Image by Larry C. Price. Zambia, 2017.
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    PART OF: The Black Death of Kabwe

    Legacy of Lead: The Children of Kabwe

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    Larry C. Price
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    June 14, 2017
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    The World's Most Toxic Town

    Use reporting on Zambia’s lead mines by Damian Carrington and Larry C. Price to explore the causes, effects and responses to toxic lead poisoning.

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    Atop Black Mountain

More than 6 million metric tonnes of lead slag form Black Mountain, a 30-meter pile of toxic lead waste that still contains a sizable quantity of lead, copper, manganese and zinc. Due to a depressed economy and lack of employment among many of Kabwe's residents, scavengers toil daily to mine some of the richer veins of lead slag for resale to reprocessing smelters in Zambia. The work is dangerous and sometimes deadly. Weak tunnels are dug to reach the brown layers of slag, which…
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    PART OF: The Black Death of Kabwe

    Subsistence Mining at Kabwe's Black Mountain

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    Larry C. Price
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    June 2, 2017
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  • Lead levels in Kabwe are as much as 100 times recommended safety levels. Image by Larry C. Price. Zambia, 2017.
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    This Week: The World’s Most Toxic Town

    The World's Most Toxic Town Larry C. Price and Damian Carrington For almost a century, the town of...

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    May 31, 2017
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    Kabwe, Zambia is Africa's most toxic city.
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    PART OF: The Black Death of Kabwe

    The Heavy Legacy of Lead in the World's Most Toxic Town—in Pictures

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    Larry C. Price
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    May 30, 2017
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    Subsistence mining at Kabwe's Black Mountain.
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    PART OF: The Black Death of Kabwe

    The World's Most Toxic Town: The Terrible Legacy of Zambia's Lead Mines

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    Larry C. Price
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    May 30, 2017
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    The Black Death of Kabwe

    Years of unmitigated contamination from Zambia's largest lead mine have created a toxic nightmare...

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    This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.

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    June 17, 2016
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    1.1 Explore Your World Through the News: An Introduction to Journalism

    It has been said that journalism is the literature of democracy. What is journalism? Why is it important? You will soon have a chance to find out!

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