The latest news and updates from the 1619 Education Programs and Initiatives.
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Mandela's Legacy
“What will he say? What will Mandela say after 27 years in prison?”
December 9, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
"I am learning something fun!" Chicago Students Follow Out of Eden Walk
Paul Salopek's walking across the world. Students all over are (virtually) walking right along with...
December 5, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: China's African Frontier
Veteran radio journalist and Pulitzer Center grantee Reese Erlich has a knack for getting himself...
December 3, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
"No Fire Zone" Generates Tweets from David Cameron
"No Fire Zone" creates Internet waves after screening in England, starting with a tweet from Prime...
November 26, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: One Man, Seven Years
In 2012 an intrepid journalist adventurer proposed that we partner on a reporting project seven...
November 25, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
The Abominable Crime Tours St. Louis: "It is sad that you need to be brave to be yourself"
What do you know about Jamaica beyond its reputation as a famed island paradise? Filmmaker Micah...
November 25, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Journalists at Risk, Stories Untold
In Syria 18 journalists have died so far this year, on top of 31 in 2012. Thirty have been kidnapped...
November 25, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Paul Salopek's Out of Eden Walk Featured on Cover of National Geographic
"Walking is falling forward." Pulitzer Center grantee Paul Salopek is following our first footsteps...
November 24, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Walking the World: 7 Years and Counting
Paul Salopek and Homa Tavangar discuss the educational implications of Paul Salopek's "Out of Eden"...
November 23, 2013
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/11-22-13/salopek4.png.webp?h=6c2fdaec&itok=Sh6K2HFa "Salopek speaks to students in the Afar region of Ethiopia in February. The Afar are nomads, people who move from place to place, so their schools have to move with them. "The Ethiopian kids would give almost anything to finish their schooling," Salopek said. "They are driven." Image by John Stanmeyer / For National Geographic.")
