Aaron Cohen

Co-Author of Slave Hunter: One Man’s Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking

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They Found It! The Long-Lost Album By Zambia's President: 'We Shall Fight HIV/AIDS'

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Kenneth Kaunda spoke out about HIV when African leaders would not even acknowledge its existence. He sang about it, too, in a 2005 album that made a splash, then vanished. And so a search began.

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Ravi Told George, They Told The World: The Birth Of The Celebrity Benefit Concert

Saturday, July 31, 2021

50 years ago, on August 1, 1971, the Concert for Bangladesh, led by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, raised funds — and awareness — for Bengali refugees. What's the legacy of this landmark event?

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Banished 'Witches' Sing Of Their Pain — And Their Dreams

Friday, March 12, 2021

In a new recording, women accused of witchcraft in Ghana — and forced to leave their homes — created songs that tell who they are, how they have suffered and what their hopes are.

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Watch A Film From Mali: The Day Before The Music Died

Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Just its title has an ominous sense of finality: The Last Song Before the War.

The documentary by Kiley Kraskouskas presents the 2011 Festival in the Desert, a showcase for Mali's incredible musicians that had been held underneath the stars outside of Timbuktu for 12 years. Ten months after ...

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Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Are Refugees Again — From Ebola

Thursday, November 06, 2014

For the past 17 years Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars' celebratory music has contradicted the horrors they witnessed during their country's civil war. The guitar-driven group came together in Guinean refugee camps in the late 1990s and has gone on to perform on international stages and collaborate with rock stars.

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Stopping Human Trafficking, One Slave at a Time

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Each year, more than 27 million people are trafficked illegally around the world. Stories of modern-day slavery and human trafficking are heartbreaking. But what can one person do abo...

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