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The Lasting Effects of Agent Orange on Laos. Join the Pulitzer Center on Thursday, June 10, 2021, at 2pm EDT for 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 for The New York Times Magazine reveals the long-ignored legacy of Agent Orange in the country of Laos, which borders Vietnam. The United States sprayed the herbicide on both sides of the border during the Vietnam War but has yet to acknowledge the Lao victims or  the consequences endured b...

Article A secondary section of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the backcountry of Ta Oey District. Image by George Black. Laos, 2019. It was a blazing-hot morning in October 2019 on the old Ho Chi Minh Trail, an intricate web of truck roads and secret paths that wove its way across the densely forested and mountainous border between Vietnam and Laos. Susan Hammond, Jacquelyn Chagnon and Niphaphone Sengthong forded a rocky stream along the trail and came to a village of about 400 people called Labeng-Khok, once the site of a logistics base inside Laos used by the North Vietnamese Army t...