Lifted Veils: August 2009

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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Africa's albinos seek their place in the sun

GLOBAL POST.COM

Lack of pigmentation causes many to be killed to make potions for the superstitious.

By Phillip Martin — Special to GlobalPost
Published: August 7, 2009 07:03 ETUpdated: August 8, 2009 13:24 ET

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PWD MARTIN: Cambridge, MA, United States; I'm Senior Investigative Reporter for WGBH 89.7 in Boston, "New England's public radio station for news and culture." I am also Executive Producer for Lifted Veils Productions, a non-profit public radio journalism company dedicated to exploring issues that divide society. Currently I am heading up the Color Initiative, an on-going BBC/WGBH radio-journalism project airing on The World, which is funded by the Ford Foundation. Previously I also received funding from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and the Funding Exchange (Paul Robeson Fund). I am a former Supervising Senior Editor for National Public Radio as well as NPR’s former National Race Relations Correspondent. I was also one of several former senior producers responsible for developing The BBC program The World on PRI and WGBH in Boston.

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