On June 10, 2021 , the Pulitzer Center hosted a conversation with journalist George Black and War Legacies Project founder Susan Hammond centered around Black’s Pulitzer Center-supported project, Agent Orange in Laos. Black’s reporting...
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Laotians Still Affected by Wartime Use of Agent Orange, Study Finds
A disabled man sits in a wheelchair in his village in Ta-Oey district of southern Laos' Saravan province, where the toxic herbicide Agent Orange was sprayed, in an undated photo. The U.S. wartime use of Agent Orange and other defoliants...
Barbara Lee Introduces Bill to Help Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange
Rep. Barbara Lee listens during a commemoration rally on June 1, 2021, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Vietnam War ended in 1975, but Vietnamese people today continue to suffer the effects of Agent Orange, the deadly dioxin-containing chemical...
The Victims of Agent Orange the U.S. Has Never Acknowledged
America has never taken responsibility for spraying the herbicide over Laos during the Vietnam War. But generations of ethnic minorities have endured the consequences. Listen to This Article The article was produced in partnership with...
French court to decide landmark case against the U.S. makers of Agent Orange
ÉVRY, France — Almost six decades after the U.S. military began dropping a toxic herbicide known as Agent Orange in the Vietnam War, a French courtroom in a Parisian suburb has become the unlikely setting for a faceoff between a woman who...
America, Please Don’t Forget the Victims of Agent Orange
Forty-six years have passed since the Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975. While some Americans may prefer to forget its atrocities, and Vietnam is focused on forgiveness and the future, the wounds of Agent Orange victims still demand...