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October 14, 2020 | Scriibe
Photo Essay: RESPONSE
Mateo Ruiz González photographed what the response to the coronavirus pandemic looked like on the streets of Brooklyn.
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Outbreaks and Epidemics
October 14, 2020 | Associated Press
AP Road Trip: Racial Tensions in America's 'Sundown Towns'
In Vienna, Illinois, no one talks openly about the violence that drove out Black residents 66 years ago, or about how it became a "sundown town." The town is still grappling with racial tensions today.
October 13, 2020 | Scriibe
Photo Essay: RECOVERY
What does recovery and reopening look like across Brooklyn during the pandemic? Mateo Ruiz González captured images of Brooklyn's streets in this COVID-19 Writers Project photo essay.
October 13, 2020 | Scriibe
Video Narrative: RESPONSE II
The coronavirus pandemic was accelerating. More tests were needed. More personal protective equipment was needed. Food supplies were depleting. Prices for essential products skyrocketed. Hysteria was setting in.
October 13, 2020 | Scriibe
The Road to Recovery
The pandemic underscored long-standing inequalities in American society. It also created scores of new social activists in Generation Z ready to become the leaders of tomorrow.
October 13, 2020 | Scriibe
Video Narrative: RESPONSE I
When COVID-19 cases spiked in March, officials encouraged extreme vigilance with social distancing. At the same time, residents were beginning to see the failures and strengths of their government's crisis response.
October 13, 2020 | Scriibe
Video Narrative: DEVASTATION III
A report released in April found that Black and Hispanic New Yorkers were dying from COVID-19 at almost twice the rate of white New Yorkers.
October 13, 2020 | Scriibe
Video Narrative: RECOVERY II
Out of the pandemic came many valuable lessons and, at the same time, many hard truths. Would these lessons become opportunities for a new way forward?
October 13, 2020 | Scriibe
Video Narrative: DEVASTATION II
In late April, the City was in the eye of the storm. Residents understood the physical impact of the virus, but up until that moment, few would have guessed the profound toll it would take on mental health.
October 13, 2020 | Scriibe
Video Narrative: RECOVERY I
As Brooklyn started reopening, residents began to reflect on lessons learned, society, and health. So much had changed in such a short time. Who had they become?
October 13, 2020 | Scriibe
Video Narrative: DEVASTATION I
In March, when New York City was the epicenter of the pandemic, Brooklyn had become a ghost town. In the streets, you could hear a pin drop, except for the unending sound of ambulance sirens.
October 13, 2020 | Scriibe
Video Narrative: AWAKENING
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets this summer to protest racial injustice and police brutality. Was this merely a momentary period of awakened frustration? Or was it a sign that real change was on the way?
February 12, 2010 | Project news
"House Call in Hell" cited in Baptist Press article
By Baptist Press Staff
A Baptist Press article describing prison conditions in Haiti highlights Pulitzer Center reporting on Haiti's National Penitentiary by Antigone Barton and Steve Sapienza:
The men, by contrast, are imprisoned in Haiti's notorious National Penitentiary, a facility located just a few blocks from the country's National Palace in central Port-au-Prince that was known for squalid conditions before it was largely destroyed by the Jan. 12 quake.
December 01, 2009 | General news
"Hope for Haiti" featured at World AIDS Day event, Nashville, 12/1
"Hope for Haiti," reported by Steve Sapienza and Antigone Barton, will be featured in an event in Nashville for World AIDS Day, Dec. 1. The event will incorporate clips on HIV/AIDS from around the world, as well as live theatre, dance and musical performances.
September 22, 2009 | Awards
LiveHopeLove.com Wins an Emmy!
Pulitzer Center's multimedia website on the human face of HIV/AIDS in Jamaica has won an Emmy for new approaches to news and documentary programming, in the arts, lifestyle and culture category, announced Sept 21, at the 30th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards at the Lincoln Center's Rose Theater in New York City.
August 06, 2009
HOPE: Excerpts from the National Black Theatre Festival
HOPE is a multimedia performance based on poems by Kwame Dawes, poet in residence at the University of South Carolina and set to music by composer Kevin Simmonds. The work grew out of a Pulitzer Center commission to report on the impact of HIV/AIDS on Jamaica, the country where Kwame Dawes grew up. While in Jamaica Dawes wrote poems in response to the stories he heard.
November 29, 2007 | News Points
HIV-AIDS in the Caribbean: Facing the Epidemic Just Off US Shores
This Saturday, December 1, is World AIDS Day, a moment each year for special focus on the epidemic. Two hours away from American shores people face this epidemic daily. The Dominican Republic and Haiti boast the highest rates in this hemisphere of the virus that leads to AIDS. And it is a story that has been overlooked in the American mainstream media.