Every Valentine's Day, I end up reflecting on the previous year and the state of women in the world. This tradition began in college, when I went to see our university's production of The Vagina Monologues, and participated in several events raising awareness about domestic violence. It has now become...

Yesterday, on Jan. 27, the main market in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, caught fire bringing the city and the country's economy to a standstill. The blaze grew into a massive inferno, with rumored 20-meter high flames, devastating thousands of businesses and overpowering the Burundi Fire Brigade. The...

On Monday, President Obama delivered his second inauguration speech, describing his vision for the future of the United States. He ended with: "Let each of us now embrace, with solemn duty and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and...

Around 7 p.m. (WAT) on October 25, 2012, four armed men entered the home of Dr. Denis Mukwege in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, according to sources working for Swedish aid organization PMU (Pentecostal Mission Development). The men forced his family at gunpoint to...

"It's a dangerous time to be a Somali musician," remarked journalist and tour organizer Daniel Gerstle, in a recent article in Rolling Stone. In a country that has seen violence, extremism, a failed government, and an unsuccessful UN peacekeeping mission, hardcore hip-hop has emerged as one of the...

If you had a photograph capturing an instant of social change, what would it look like? Would it be of a quiet individual or a group in protest? What symbols or characters would it include? How would it define transformation?

Social change is most often slow and evolutionary, through dialogue,...