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Esther Mujawayo and her daughters Amelia and Amanda.

A family looks back on Rwanda’s genocide and considers when forgiveness is ‘too much to ask’

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Esther Mujawayo and her three daughters escaped from Rwanda during the genocide. And they’ve spent the past two decades finding out what happened to their family.

Esther Mujawayo and her daughters Amelia and Amanda.

A family looks back on Rwanda’s genocide and considers when forgiveness is ‘too much to ask’

Conflict & Justice

Latest Amelia Earhart expedition comes up empty

Hilary Swank in ‘Amelia’ might not fly

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Searching the Pacific for Amelia Earhart’s Long Lost Airplane

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Gore Vidal

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If anyone’s life is worth recounting, it’s Gore Vidal’s. The celebrated writer not only made his mark on literature over the past six decades, he also had a front row seat to history. His father romanced Amelia Earhart; he feuded with Eleanor Roosevelt and William F. Buckley among many others; and he went shooting with […]

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Women in aviation: 75 years after Amelia Earhart’s Pacific flight

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Today marks the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s successful flight from Honolulu to Oakland, California. To help update the history of women in aviation we talk to the first woman to join part of the elite Thunderbird squad of the Air Force.

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Friday at the Movies: ‘Amelia’ Another Winner for Swank?

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‘Amelia,’ the biopic of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, opens across the country today. Will this be Hilary Swank’s third Oscar-winning role?

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DNA and the Earhart mystery

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There’s a new effort to figure out what happened to Amelia Earhart. The aviation pioneer and her navigator disappeared over the Pacific in 1937. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Richard Gillespie of Tighar.

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