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'There's a Rabid Hunger to Criticize': A 'Kony 2012' Creator Defends the Film
The most popular internet video in years has sparked tears and controversy. We talked to one guy who started the madness.
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Don't Reduce Uganda to a Meme
Shouldn’t I be happy the Kony 2012 campaign has finally drawn U.S. attention to a long-running conflict in my ancestral home? Actually, I'm angry.
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UN Comes Out for Gay Rights for the First Time in History
Bigots are a dying breed: The United Nations has come out for gay rights for the fist time in its nearly 70-year history.
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Joseph Kony and the Moral Ambiguity of the Modern World
The film everyone's talking about reminds us that hardly anything is black and white anymore.
Business
Question Box: Bringing the Power of the Internet to People Without Computers
Rose Shuman is bringing the life-saving value of a fast Google-type search to even the most remote parts of the globe.
Education
"I Was Itching Like a Crackhead": Study Finds College Students Addicted to Media
Students across the globe can't function without media for even 24 hours without experiencing addiction-like withdrawal symptoms.
Business
The Avon of Africa: How Micro-Entrepreneurs Can Fight Poverty
Joy Twinomusasizi found dignity, income and the chance to help her community thanks to an organization that supports micro-entrepreneurs.
Business
Welcome to Kawempe: Photos of Social Enterprise in Uganda
Visit Kawempe, a slum outside of Kampala, Uganda, where social enterprise is providing economic opportunity and fighting disease.
Lifestyle
Teach a Man to Make Drugs: Pharmaceutical Companies Invest in African Generic Drug Plant
An $80 million investment in Africa producing generic drugs will make treatment more widely available.
Lifestyle
Who Should Feed Hungry School Kids?
This is a question being raised in Uganda right now, where close to a million schoolkids are literally starving, and where the teachers' union is...
News
Anti-gay Advocates Confused When Anti-gay Rhetoric Taken Seriously
In Uganda, the government is contemplating a law that would punish homosexuality with death. Apparently, this law was inspired by three American...
GOOD Blog
Help Support Invisible Children: Bring The Polyphonic Spree to Uganda
In 2003, a small team of Southern California filmmakers made a gritty documentary exposing the chilling reality of the child soldier epidemic...
Culture
Kitintale: Yann Gross's Vision of Skateboarding in Uganda
Last year, we ran a Picture Show of Yann Gross's photographs of Uganda's only skate park. If you liked that, you should check out this trailer...
