Bill Crawford, a diabetic and double amputee, lies in bed in his living room in Watts. Because of delays in treatment, Crawford hasn’t been able to get approval for the physical therapy he needs to learn to walk on his prosthetic legs.
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Her small toe was turning purple, and the pain was excruciating. Glory Paschal knew how fast this could spiral. She just had to look around her neighborhood in Watts to see how many residents were missing feet and legs.
She fought for a referral to a podiatrist, but by the time she saw one, it was too late.
On Feb. 10, 2011, doctors at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center had no option but to amputate her left leg below the knee.
This summer, the now 53-year-old Black grandmother was back in the hospital, this time with two infections particularly lethal for a diabetic: severe COVID-19 had her gasping for breath and gangrene was eating away at her remaining foot.
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Glory Paschal, 53, who had her left leg amputated in 2011, was in Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital on July 26 with two infections particularly lethal for a diabetic: gangrene in her remaining foot and severe COVID-19.
The coronavirus piggybacked on a catastrophe of poorly treated chronic illnesses rampant in South L.A.: heart disease, high blood pressure, lung cancer, kidney disease, asthma, arthritis, depression. And diabetes.
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Dr. Myron Hall removes dead and infected tissue from Glory Paschal’s foot.
All of this made South L.A. a hotspot of COVID-19 deaths during the winter surge. But while that deadly wave receded, the high tide of underlying conditions remained, with Black and Latino residents facing nearly unrivaled numbers of diabetic amputations.
The loss of limbs embodies the enduring grief of generations in South L.A. — of entrenched poverty, the dearth of both supermarkets with fresh food and parks to promote exercise, and a deeply deficient primary healthcare system that relies on low payouts from the state’s Medi-Cal program and a scant number of qualified doctors.
“The tragedy is our community lacks almost every type of healthcare that you can think of and that most of us take for granted,” said Dr. Elaine Batchlor, the chief executive of Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital.
She said despite the efforts of her privately funded, high-tech hospital, the people of South L.A. are largely getting preventive care that is “separate and unequal.”
Nobody, Batchlor said, should have to live in a community “where you couldn’t go to the pharmacy and get the medicines that your doctor prescribed.”
“We wouldn’t live in a community where you couldn’t get urgent care. We wouldn’t live in a community where you couldn’t get an appointment to see your doctor for weeks or months,” she said. “But that’s what we’ve got in this community.”
When Paschal visited her primary care doctor in Lynwood for her toe pain, he told her she just had a case of athlete’s foot and sent her home with cream.
When she returned multiple times asking for a referral, the doctor told her she was “nothing but a problem.”
“You’d be better off if they cut your foot off,” she recalled him saying.
She eventually got an appointment with a foot specialist for $50. “You need to go to the emergency room right now,” he said.
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Dr. Myron Hall, left, operates to remove three toes from the right foot of Tony Zamora, 44, on June 2. At a follow-up appointment, right, Zamora, waits for Hall to see how the wound is healing.
Dr. Myron Hall has heard the story of this same cascade of failure too often to count. As a Black podiatrist at MLK hospital, he has devoted the last five years to salvaging limbs and lives.
Among his patients: Tony Zamora, 45, of Compton, was falling down the same hole as his dad, who lost both legs and died two years later. Bill Crawford, 66, has been lying in bed in Watts for two years after his two below-the-knee amputations, fighting kidney stones while waiting to get the physical therapy he needed to learn to use prosthetic limbs and walk again. Paschal was trying to preserve her remaining foot and survive COVID-19.
At MLK hospital, amputations are the most common surgical procedures. Researchers at UCLA found that diabetic residents here and other poor parts of the city were more than 10 times as likely as those in more affluent areas to have a toe, foot or leg amputated.
The high blood sugar associated with diabetes does its damage to organs and limbs by clogging arteries. In the feet, this means minor wounds don’t have the blood flow to fight off microbes, and small infections can turn lethal.
Removing the infected parts is too often the last resort — a decaying toe or two, then the metatarsals, then a foot or a leg. The decline in mobilitycan lead to social isolation, depression and the further deterioration of health. Studies show that between 52% and 80% of diabetic patients who get a below-the-knee amputation die within five years.
A survey conducted by MLK hospital last year found that its service area of more than 1.3 million people had only a third of the full-time physicians required to adequately treat that population — a shortage of 1,300 doctors.
“There is no question that the healthcare disparities that we see across America and certainly in places like South Los Angeles are the long-standing results of systemic racism,” said Darnell Hunt, dean of social sciences at UCLA and co-editor of “Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities.”
The inequities are the heritage of a city’s drive, for 80-some years, to geographically segregate people of color with its own brand of Jim Crow, particularly as tens of thousands of Black people began arriving from the South during World War II.
Restrictive housing covenants and racist real estate agents kept Black families from moving out of South L.A. Redlining of the area prevented them from getting loans for homes and businesses. Black residents faced discriminatory hiring, second-rate schools and militaristic policing that became notorious for its abuses.
The policies effectively platted South Los Angeles as a zone of enduring inequity for subsequent waves of immigrants, whether from Louisiana, Mexico or El Salvador.
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A friend greets Bill Crawford, left, a founder and longtime announcer for the pro-am basketball Drew League, as he arrives in June for the season opener at St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower.
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When Bill Crawford’s family came to Los Angeles from New Orleans in 1957, they moved to Watts. His dad was a Baptist preacher and became one of the few Black sheriff’s deputies at the time. His mom taught at Carver Middle School.
The neighborhood was a peaceful, friendly place of interconnected Southern families and plenty of local businesses. Across the street from his home on Compton Avenue was a jewelry store, a clothing shop where his mom bought his church clothes and a big supermarket where his dad helped cut the meat.
Crawford was a football star at Jordan High School, until he shattered his hip. That thwarted his prospects for a full-ride scholarship to USC, but he paid his way through Cal State Fullerton and later became an English teacher and coached football and basketballat Fremont High School.
On the side, he and his friends started a nighttime pickup game of basketball in the gym at Charles H. Drew Middle School that evolved into the famous Drew League, a pro-am summer league drawing such luminaries as Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. Crawford was the league’s announcer for 22 years and coached for 27.
His old friends call him “Still Bill” because he’s solid, never changing.
“The game doesn’t start until Bill comes in,” said Dino Smiley, chief executive of the league. “He’s our No. 1 legend.”
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Bill Crawford, center, is welcomed by friends at the Drew League opener in June.
Crawford moved to Upland to get away from “all the drama, the gang stuff, the police brutality” in the 1980s but was commuting to his job in Watts and attended every Drew event.
At age 35, he was diagnosed with diabetes. The disease had already damaged his retina and he lost his sight for a month. He was also developing deep vein thrombosis in his legs and arthritis where he broke his hip.
He and his wife and two young daughters moved back to Watts so he could be near the Kaiser Permanente medical offices in Bellflower. Doctors there got his blood sugar under control and saved him after a pulmonary embolism in 2008. When he retired at 55 and shifted to Medi-Cal insurance, he started getting treatment at a local clinic.
To treat his deep vein thrombosis, the clinic sent him to a specialist in downtown Long Beach, who told him he needed a stent to open up an artery in his leg. But he never got the approval for the procedure that might have saved his feet. As his circulation diminished, he quit playing basketball and found it harder to walk.
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Bill Crawford starts his day, cleaning up and shaving his head in bed in his living room in Watts.
One morning his wife noticed his foot was bleeding. Because the diabetes had caused a loss of sensation in his legs, Crawford hadn’t realized there was a wound. A tack had been stuck in the bottom of his slipper for who knows how long.
For two years, he cycled through doctor’s offices and hospitals.
“We’d rather have no feet than no dad.”
— Crawford’s youngest daughter
At the Drew League championship in 2017, with Bryant and actor Jamie Foxx in attendance, Smiley made an announcement about a gift for a special guest.
“Knowing him the way I do, he probably don’t want no wheelchair,” Smiley said. “But we got it for him anyway.”
Crawford beamed, feeling all the love he put into the league returned to him.
Crawford first saw Hall on Dec. 21, 2017, with a massive ulcer where the pin-prick had been. The two hit it off. They were both sports junkies and high school football standouts.
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Bill Crawford pulls himself out of bed in his living room in Watts.
Hall took some scissors and a scalpel to remove infected and dead tissue — debriding the wound — and had him return repeatedly over several months.
But it was late in the game. A home nurse nicked his other foot, and that wound got infected. Crawford was put on a catheter with antibiotics for six weeks and Hall kept debriding. But the infection was creeping into his bones and could kill him.
“We’d rather have no feet than no dad,” his youngest daughter said.
Doctors cut off Crawford’s right leg below the knee in November 2018 and removed the left one three months later.
Because of delays in treatment, Crawford hasn’t been able to get approval for the physical therapy he needs to walk on his prosthetic legs, which have been sitting in his garage for two years.
Crawford lies in bed surrounded by photos of his five daughters and the college and graduate degrees of his most academic child: from UC Berkeley, USC, UCLA.
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Aaliyah Tisdale, 2, reaches up to hold the hand of her grandfather Bill Crawford in their Watts home.
His girls are his biggest motivation to continue the fight.
“Get me going, that’s all I want,” he says.
Hall never expected to be dealing with matters of life and death when he decided to go into podiatry. He thought he’d be mostly doing sports medicine.
After an early career as a naval officer, Hall worked at the Kaiser Permanente facility in Fontana before opening a private practice in Beverly Hills, with staff privileges at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he does complex foot and ankle reconstruction surgeries. But he promised his mother, Gloria, that he wouldn’t just treat the rich. He knew poverty firsthand. He and his mom lived for a spell in the back of a restaurant and bar Gloria owned in Tennessee when she couldn’t pay the mortgage on her house. He can still smell the specialty — fried whiting fish.
When Hall was a running back in high school and she was chaperone for the cheerleaders, Gloria would run down the sideline with him.
“Don’t look back!” she yelled. “Why are you looking back? They can’t catch you.”
She died six years ago from respiratory failure, but her sideline voice rings in his ear every day. He started doing house calls in South L.A. and Compton, then opened a second practice out of Martin Luther King Jr. hospital in 2016. He often does rounds at MLK hospital at 4 a.m., drives to Beverly Hills when the morning traffic dies down and returns to MLK hospital to do a surgery at night.
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Tony Zamora, recovering from having all the toes on his right foot removed, rubs his eyes as he lies on his mother’s sofa.
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Tony Zamora first visited Hall at an MLKclinic in Compton in 2019 with a blister on the side of his foot. Hall debrided and treated it with antibiotics. But Zamora’s coverage plan didn’t provide daily nurses to take care of the wound and the infection worsened. His big toe was turning black. On Zamora’s next visit to the clinic, Hall could smell the decay as soon as he opened the door of the examination room.
He amputated the toe and cleaned out all the other infected tissue he could see. Rather than cut off the entire foot to ensure the infection would not spread, Hall checked and debrided the wound. He tried keeping the infection down with antibiotics.
Zamora knew how quickly these losses accrued. He still grieved his father, Rafael, who died two years after losing his second foot at 61.
His dad’s death sent Zamora into a tailspin that ultimately led to a divorce and several years of drinking, meth use and homelessness. “He was the most important person in my life,” he said.
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Tony Zamora lies on the operating room table at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Willowbrook before having his toes removed because of a foot infection.
During that time, Zamora’s own diabetes went untreated and led to peripheral artery disease and a loss of sensation in his feet. But by the time he reached Hall, he had marginally pulled his life together and was working as a forklift driver and living in a tent in the back of his mother’s house.
After Hall removed his big toe, Zamora needed to be vigilant: Wear diabetic shoes, check his feet every day, keep his sugar and blood pressure down.
But he was distracted, devastated about his toe, missing his wife and two children, who were living near San Bernardino.
To get him out of his funk, his mother took him on a trip in April to her hometown in Mexico. He started drinking with his cousins and walked all over the village in regular shoes. He came home with an open wound covering most of the ball of his foot.
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Dr. Myron Hall, left, and Ali Yousufzad, a surgical assistant, right, bandage Tony Zamora’s foot after the surgery.
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Dr. J. Shin, anesthesiologist, left, prepares Tony Zamora for surgery at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in June.
When he was told by his insurance that he would have to have the surgery at a different hospital than MLK, Hall intervened and got him approved to have it done as an outpatient procedure. Zamora came in at 6 a.m., had the bad tissue cut out and went home at noon.
One night, Zamora fell going to the bathroom and bashed the wound. More surgeries followed, and he lost a second toe. When he came to the emergency room on June 2 in severe pain, his condition was so dire that Hall ordered that he not be transferred to a different hospital
That night in the operating room, the doctor prayed and washed up for surgery.
“He’s got air bubbles under his skin and that’s one of the obligatory emergencies we have,” Hall told The Times. “If you have gas, you have gas gangrene and possibly necrotizing fasciitis, which is the flesh-eating bacteria that is life-threatening.”
Hall removed his remaining toes, and all the metatarsals — the front half of the foot.
If he didn’t lose more, Zamora could wear a shoe filler and walk on that leg.
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Dr. Myron Hall, left, is removing the bandages on Tony Zamora’s foot to check for any new infection at a wound care treatment center.
But he struggled with his diet. This month, Zamora’s blood sugar was dangerously high and his leg was swelling up with a new infection. He was back at MLK hospital on a catheter line of antibiotics to save his life.
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AfterGlory Paschal’s leg was amputated in 2011, she switched primary care doctors but battledto get adequate treatment through him and his network. She relied on the emergency room instead. The ER at MLK hospital was designed to treat 40,000 people per year; it sees 100,000. About 40% of its patients are seeking primary care.
Paschal went there in September 2020, feeling sick and exhausted. A vascular surgeon, David Tobey, told her that her kidneys were failing and hooked her up with peritoneal dialysis. In February, Tobey did an angioplasty to restore blood flow in her right leg, and had Hall look at her feet.
Paschal, who came to California as a 4-year-old from Magnolia, Ark., showed a grit that reminded Hall of his mother’s determination. Butwhen she dropped the cantankerous front she needed to fight for her medical care, she was warm and sharply funny.
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Glory Paschal recovers after the removal of two small toes on her right foot after gangrene set into her remaining foot.
Her mother raised her and her two brothers in the Nickerson Gardens public housing complex in Watts. In the summer, they went to the beach. On warm nights, her mom and aunt would sit on the porch talking, and the kids would fall asleep on the lawn.
But her mother died of heart disease when she was 9. Paschal and her brothers were sent to live with different aunts and uncles. She went to high school in the Central Valley and came back to Watts during her senior year in 1986 without getting her diploma. The area’s economic backbone had been gutted by the closing of the auto factories, tire plants and steel mills that had provided solid blue-collar work since World War II.
Paschal found a job doing laundry at the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey.
When she had her son Nelson, she qualified for federal aid. She raised the boy and his younger sister Keynna to be respectful to adults, say “yes ma’am, no sir.” They were diligent in school and kept out of gangs. She loved nothing more than escaping into old TV westerns like “Bonanza,” “The Big Valley” and “The Rifleman,” where the difference between good and bad was clear as day.
She mostlydidn’t have a car and often ate at Hawkins House of Burgers across from her apartment because it was cheap and easily accessible, and the nearest supermarket carried old meat and stale produce. At age 32, she was diagnosed with diabetes and hypertension, and her long journey through the Medi-Cal system began.
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Dr. Myron Hall, left, operates on Glory Paschal’s right foot at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital.
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Dr. Myron Hall, left, checking for a pulse on Glory Paschal’s foot before operating on her in May.
On May 21, she had large blisters on her foot, and Hall had to remove her two small toes. She didn’t have enough skin left to close the wound, so he left it open for the tissue to regenerate.
Every Wednesday after that, Nelson, now 27, drove his mom to the wound care clinic and wheeled her up to the second floor, towing his sister’s two little girls behind. He worked two 24-hour shifts every week as an emergency medical technician and took care of his nieces the other days.
“He’s the uncle, but he’s Uncle Daddy,” Paschal says.
The wound improved but on July 10 Paschal came to the ER for urogenital bleeding and tested positive for COVID-19. Her symptoms were mild at first, but her condition worsened fast. Within a week, she was on high-flow nasal oxygen at the maximum setting.
She said no to being put on a ventilator, sure she would die on it.
She struggled to breathe for weeks, and fell into a delirium, reliving a terrifying memory when she was thrown into a pool as a little girl, unable to swim.
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Dr. Myron Hall and patient Glory Paschal discuss her health. In August when, Paschal was recovering from COVID-19, Hall had to remove the rest of her toes to save her foot.
Her wound deteriorated as anti-inflammatory medications for COVID-19 compromised her immune response and her tissue was getting less oxygen. By August, she was recovering from the virus, but the foot infection was in the bone, where it could enter the bloodstream. Hall had to remove the rest of her toes to save her foot and her life.
After 54 days in the hospital,she bore the loss stoically, knowing Hall did all he could do.
In her apartment, her little granddaughters lift her spirits.
“Granny, it’s exercise time,” they call out, coming home from kindergarten.
They help her as she lifts her arms and legs.
She’s confident she’ll be able to walk again.
But she’ll forever resent her initial doctors’ lack of attention.
Joe Mozingo is a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He won a Robert F. Kennedy Award for covering the earthquake in Haiti and the ASNE Punch Sulzberger Award for Online Storytelling for his in-depth look at a federal investigation into relic poaching in rural Utah that led to three suicides. Mozingo helped lead The Times’ coverage of the Isla Vista killings in 2014 and a Miami Herald investigation into the space shuttle Columbia crash in 2003; both were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His book, “The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, a Search for Family” was a 2012 “Discover Great New Writers” pick by Barnes and Noble.
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Francine Orr has been a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times since 2000. Previously, she was as a staff photographer at the Kansas City Star. Orr served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia. While there, she learned how to be a quiet observer and gained a love for stories. She was raised in Colorado and earned bachelor’s degrees in both history and art from the University of Saint Mary. Orr has focused on public health and poverty issues in Africa, India and the United States. In Los Angeles, she has concentrated on the growing homeless crisis since 2005. Orr received the coveted 2020 Meyer “Mike” Berger for an outstanding example of in-depth, human interest reporting from Columbia Journalism School. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature photography in 2012. Other awards include the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Center for Public Integrity’s Daniel Pearl Award, Pictures of the Year International, National Press Photographers Assn., Society of Newspaper Design, Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, Harry Chapin Award, Los Angeles Press Club, National Headliner Award, Sidney Hillman Award and Press Photographers of Greater Los Angeles.
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A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold through Arab-American Lives
The history of Arab settlement in the United States stretches back nearly as far as the history of America itself. For the first time, Alia Malek brings this history to life. In each of eleven spellbinding chapters, she inhabits the voice and life of one Arab American, at one time-stopping historical moment.
This book seeks to tell the life stories of the innocent men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the “war on terror.” As we approach the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, this collection of narratives gives voice to the people who have had their human rights violated here in the U.S. by post-9/11 policies and actions.
Unsettled/Desasosiego: Children in a World of Gangs/Los niños en un mundo de las pandillas
With profound empathy for a reality that is too easily defined and dismissed as repugnant, Unsettled/Desasosiego takes us on a visual journey into the lives of children deeply affected by civil war and gang violence.
Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future
Legal Lynching offers a succinct, accessible introduction to the debate over the death penalty's history and future, exposing a chilling frequency of legal error, systemic racial and economic discrimination, and pervasive government misconduct.
War Photographer is a documentary by Christian Frei about the photographer James Nachtwey. As well as telling the story of an iconic man in the field of war photography, the film addresses the broader scope of ideas common to all those involved in war journalism, as well as the issues that they cover.
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect.
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
In Blood and Soil, Kiernan examines outbreaks of mass violence from the classical era to the present, focusing on worldwide colonial exterminations and twentieth-century case studies including the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin’s mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides.
Ophuls examines attitudes toward war in the Western media, and in the societies they inform. The 243-minute documentary interlaces stark realities of combat with mordantly hilarious references to Hollywood fantasy-versions of war, and includes over 50 interviews with some of the world’s leading journalists, commentators, historians, newscasters and many others.
An enthralling, deeply moving memoir from one of our foremost American war correspondents. Janine Di Giovanni has spent most of her career—more than twenty years—in war zones recording events on behalf of the voiceless. From Sarajevo to East Timor, from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, she has been under siege and under fire.
Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity)
Echoes of Violence is an award-winning collection of personal letters to friends from a foreign correspondent who is trying to understand what she witnessed during the iconic human disasters of our time--in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and New York City on September 11th, among many other places.
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life.
With inspiring fearlessness, McClelland tackles perhaps her most harrowing assignment to date: investigating the damage in her own mind and repairing her broken psyche. She begins to probe the depths of her illness, exploring our culture's history with PTSD, delving into the latest research by the country's top scientists and therapists, and spending time with veterans and their families.
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
This ground breaking book, the first collection of original essays on genocide to be published in anthropology, explores a wide range of cases, including Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Bosnia.
Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
In 2002 Donald Rumsfeld signed a memo that authorized the controversial interrogation practices that later migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere. From a behind-the-scenes vantage point, Phillipe Sands investigates how this memo set the stage for divergence.
Shoah is Claude Lanzmann's landmark documentary meditation on the Holocaust. Assembled from footage shot by the filmmaker during the 1970s and 1980s, it investigates the genocide at the level of experience: the geographical layout of the camps and the ghettos; the daily routines of imprisonment; the inexorable trauma of humiliation, punishment, extermination; and the fascinating insights of those who experienced these events first hand.
Humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, "Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology" is the only book of its kind available: a single volume exploration of social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence.
A gripping and insightful examination of the relationship between news-makers and news-watchers, looking at how images of war and tragedy are presented to us in the media and how we consume them
Guzmán focuses on the similarities between astronomers researching humanity’s past, in an astronomical sense, and the struggle of many Chilean women who still search, after decades, for the remnants of their relatives executed during the dictatorship. Patricio Guzmán narrates the documentary himself and the documentary includes interviews and commentary from those affected and from astronomers and archeologists.
In his extraordinarily gripping and thought-provoking new book, Jeremy Bowen charts his progress from keen young novice whose first reaction to the sound of gunfire was to run towards it to the more circumspect veteran he is today
The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict
The Observer's chief foreign correspondent Peter Beaumont, takes us into the guts of modern conflict. He visits the bombed and abandoned home of Mullah Omar; discovers a deserted Al Qaeda camp where he finds documents describing a plan to attack London; talks to young bomb-throwers in a Rafah refugee camp. Unflinching and utterly gripping
France's leading sociologist shows how, far from reflecting the tastes of the majority, television, particularly television journalism, imposes ever-lower levels of political and social discourse on us all.
Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom.
Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
MINDFULNESS reveals a set of simple yet powerful practices that you can incorporate into daily life to help break the cycle of anxiety, stress, unhappiness, and exhaustion. It promotes the kind of happiness and peace that gets into your bones. It seeps into everything you do and helps you meet the worst that life throws at you with new courage.
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Full Catastrophe Living is a book for the young and the old, the well, the ill, and anyone trying to live a healthier and saner life in today’s world. By using the practices described within, you can learn to manage chronic pain resulting from illness and/or stress related disorders.
Slee: A Very Short Introduction, addresses the biological and psychological aspects of sleep, providing a basic understanding of what sleep is and how it is measured, a look at sleep through the human lifespan, and the causes and consequences of major sleep disorders.
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust.
This is a new edition of the world's leading textbook on journalism. Translated into more than a dozen languages, David Randall's handbook is an invaluable guide to the 'universals' of good journalistic practice for professional and trainee journalists worldwide.
Legends of People Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka
This provocative study of the political culture of nationalism in Sri Lanka and Australia - is one of the few genuinely comparative studies in anthropology and in taking up such an important question as nationalism it reminds us that truly relevant anthropology questions deep-seated cultural beliefs, including our own
Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain
Family Secrets offers a sweeping account of how shame--and the relationship between secrecy and openness--has changed over the last two centuries in Britain. Deborah Cohen uses detailed sketches of individual families as the basis for comparing different sorts of social stigma.
During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died—a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W. G. Sebald asks: Why?
The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
Christina Lamb's evocative reporting brings to life the stories that no one else had written about: the abandoned victims of almost a quarter century of war. Her unique perspective on Afghanistan and deep passion for the people she writes about make this the definitive account of the tragic plight of a proud nation.
House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe
Christina Lamb's powerful narrative traces the history of the brutal civil war, independence, and the Mugabe years, all through the lives of two people on opposing sides. Although born within a few miles of each other, their experience growing up could not have been more different.
Butcher & Bolt: Two Hundred Years of Foreign Failure in Afghanistan
Butcher & Bolt brilliantly brings to life the personalities involved in Afghanistan’s relationship with the world, chronicling the misunderstandings and missed opportunities that have so often led to war.
Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Jerusalem 1913 shows us a cosmopolitan city whose religious tolerance crumbled before the onset of Z ionism and its corresponding nationalism on both sides-a conflict that could have been resolved were it not for the onset of World War I. With extraordinary skill, Amy Dockser Marcus rewrites the story of one of the world's most indelible divides.
They Fought for Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq
Based on "Blood Brothers," the award-nominated series that ran in Army Times, this is the remarkable story of a courageous military unit that sacrificed their lives to change Adhamiya, Iraq from a lawless town where insurgents roamed freely, to a safe and secure neighborhood. This is a timeless story of men at war and a heartbreaking account of American sacrifice in Iraq.
The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans
Aaron Glantz reported extensively from Iraq during the first three years of this war and has been reporting on the plight of veterans ever since. The War Comes Home is the first book to systematically document the U.S. government's neglect of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Madame Dread: A Tale of Love, Vodou, and Civil Strife in Haiti
Kathie Klarreich's compelling memoir interweaves shattering political events with an intensely personal narrative about the Haitian musician Klarreich, who turns out to be as enthralling and complicated as the political events she covered.
In the tradition of Helter Skelter and In Cold Blood, Columbine is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times
Juvenile, photographer Joseph Rodríguez spent several years following several youths, from arrest, counseling, trial adjudication, and incarceration, to release, probation, house arrest, group homes, and the search for employment and meaning in their lives.
By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. This story is at times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.
Still Here, documents the ongoing expressions of hope, perseverance, and suffering in the still-devastated communities of New Orleans and Texas post hurricane Katrina. Rodríguez spent two years photographing and interviewing families and individuals who shared their daily struggles to rebuild their lives.
Breaking News, Breaking Down, Two journalists' emotional journey after 9/11 & Katrina - This program tells the hidden story of how traumatic news impacts the men and women who cover it. Mike Walter loved chasing the big story, but on one September morning, the biggest story of his career chased him down: a jet rained from the sky, piercing the Pentagon and shattering his emotional well being.
One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers
The debate about women and torture has, until recently, focused on women as victims of violence. The essays in One of the Guys challenge and examine the expectations placed on women while attempting to understand female perpetrators of abuse and torture in a broader context.
Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War
Tara McKelvey — the first U.S.journalist to speak with female prisoners from Abu Ghraib — traveled to the Middle East and across the United States to seek out victims and perpetrators. McKelvey tells how soldiers, acting in an atmosphere that encouraged abuse and sadism, were unleashed on a prison population of which the vast majority, according to army documents, were innocent civilians.
Gogo Mama : A Journey Into the Lives of Twelve African Women
This book is a journey across Africa, in all its complexity; from the townships of Johannesburg, to the back alleys of Zanzibar; from the frontline of the war in the Sudan, to the nightclubs of Cairo. It is a vivid, illuminating and often haunting composite picture of an extraordinary continent, in the words of the women who know it best.
Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America
This is the first anthology of its kind, bringing together outstanding practitioners of the muckraking tradition, from the Revolutionary era to the present day. Ranging from mainstream figures like Woodward and Bernstein to legendary iconoclasts such as I. F. Stone and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the dispatches in this collection combine the thrill of the chase after facts with a burning sense of outrage
Trauma Therapy in Context: The Science and Craft of Evidence-based Practice
This book examines several current clinical approaches to trauma-focused treatment. Rather than describe theoretical approaches in isolation, the editors have integrated these interventions into a broader clinical context. Chapter authors emphasize basic therapeutic skills such as empathic listening, instilling resilience, and creating meaning, in the service of empirically-supported, highly efficacious trauma interventions.
Ari Goldman’s exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning for his father will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one, as he describes how this year affected him as a son, husband, father, and member of his community.
What began as a project to deepen his knowledge of the world’s sacred beliefs turned out to be an extraordinary journey of spiritual illumination, one in which Goldman reexamined his own faith as an Orthodox Jew and opened his mind to the great religions of the world. Written with warmth, humor, and penetrating clarity, The Search for God at Harvard is a book for anyone who has wrestled with the question of what it means to take religion seriously today.
Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today
In Being Jewish, Ari L. Goldman offers eloquent thoughts about an absorbing exploration of modern Judaism. A bestselling author and widely respected chronicler of Jewish life, Goldman vividly contrasts the historical meaning of Judaism's heritage with the astonishing and multiform character of the religion today.
This book is a collection of reflective crime pieces, often approaching the events from different angles, yet written by on-the spot observers and reporters. There is an emphasis on the victims, and as a result these stories are written with sensitivity and compassion rather than sensationalism.
Over twenty-five tales of grisly murders and suspicious killings are laid out for inspection, including the story of the Police Killers and tales of the seedy Melbourne underworld.
This fully revised and updated new edition of Smart Health Choices will provide you with the tools for assessing health advice, whether it comes from a specialist, general practitioner, naturopath, the media, the Internet, or a friend. It shows you how to take an active role in your health care, and to make the best decisions for you and your loved ones based on personal preferences and the best available evidence.
The Spanish-language version of the Dart Center's 40-page guide to help journalists, photojournalists and editors report on violence while protecting both victims and themselves.
9/11: Mental Health in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks
This book comprehensively describes the psychological response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and, to a lesser degree, Washington DC. The impact of what happened on the local and US national population is considered through various epidemiological studies, as well as personal accounts from some of those more directly involved.
Filled with astonishing personal stories, conflict, and drama, Feet to the Fire gives readers the rare opportunity to walk a mile in the shoes of this nation’s most powerful journalists and news executives and experience their highly stressful environments. With each new and revealing interview, Borjesson gathers devastating details from national security and intelligence reporters, White House journalists, Middle East experts, war correspondents, and others. Like pieces of a terrible puzzle, these conversations combine to provide a hair-raising view of the mechanisms by which the truth has been manufactured post 9/11.
Chronicling Trauma: Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss
Grounded in the latest research in the fields of trauma studies, literary biography, and the history of journalism, this study draws upon the lively and sometimes breathtaking accounts of popular writers such as Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Graham Greene, and Truman Capote, exploring the role that trauma has played in shaping their literary works. Underwood notes that the influence of traumatic experience upon journalistic literature is being reshaped by a number of factors, including news media trends, the advance of the Internet, the changing nature of the journalism profession, the proliferation of psychoactive drugs, and journalists' greater self-awareness of the impact of trauma in their work.
Daring to Feel: Violence, the News Media, and Their Emotions
Daring to Feel is a bold, brave book. Jody Santos challenges the entrenched doctrine that journalists are neutral, dispassionate observers of 'fact.' Santos demonstrates how journalists themselves and society as a whole benefit from emotionally nuanced and emotionally engaged reporting. This is a beautifully written tribute to the passion of journalists and the heart-wrenching stories they cover.
The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War
In The Things They Cannot Say, award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks these difficult questions of eleven soldiers and marines, who—by sharing the truth about their wars—display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics. For each of these men, many of whom Sites first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq, the truth means something different. One struggles to recover from a head injury he believes has stolen his ability to love; another attempts to make amends for the killing of an innocent man; yet another finds respect for the enemy fighter who tried to kill him. Sites also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war—including his complicity in a murder—and the redemptive powers of storytelling that saved him from a self-destructive downward spiral.
Kevin Sites, the award-winning journalist, covered virtually every major global hot spot as the first Internet correspondent for Yahoo! News. Beginning his journey with the anarchic chaos of Somalia in September 2005 and ending with the Israeli-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006, Sites talks with rebels and government troops, child soldiers and child brides, and features the people on every side, including those caught in the cross fire. His honest reporting helps destroy the myths of war by putting a human face on war's inhumanity.
Swimming with Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War
Using his trademark immersive style, Kevin Sites uncovered surprising stories with unexpected truths. He swam in the Kunduz River with an infamous warlord named Nabi Gechi, who demonstrated both his fearsome killing skills as well as a genius for peaceful invention. Sites talked with ex-Taliban fighters, politicians, female cops, farmers, drug addicts, and diplomats, and patrolled with American and Afghan soldiers. In Swimming with Warlords he helps us to understand this kingdom of primitive beauty, dark mysteries, and savage violence, as well as the conflict that has cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives--and what we might expect tomorrow and in the years to come.
The Price They Paid is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the flight crews that followed him into the most intensive helicopter warfare ever—and how that brutal experience has changed their lives in the forty years since the war ended.
What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
Most Americans are now familiar with PTSD and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking book, David Wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our fundamental values of right and wrong that so often occurs in the impossible moral dilemmas of modern conflict.
Collective Conviction: The Story of Disaster Action
Collective Conviction tells the story of Disaster Action, a small charity founded in 1991 by survivors and bereaved people from the disasters of the late 1980s, including Zeebrugge, King's Cross, Clapham, Lockerbie, Hillsborough and the Marchioness. The aims were to create a health and safety culture in which disasters were less likely to occur and to support others affected by similar events.
When Lynne O’Donnell met Pauline and Margaret in Iraq she could never have guessed the wealth of stories she’d discover. Over tea the two women tell Lynne of their lives in the country: each having married Iraqi men had then relocated from England more than thirty years before.
Trauma Reporting A Journalist's Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories
Trauma Reporting provides vital information on developing a healthy, professional and respectful relationship with those who choose to tell their stories during times of trauma, distress or grief.