Oftentimes NYC housing projects are considered too hopelessly riddled with poverty and crime to even begin to think about a future.  Tragically, the residents are written off with their homes and their stories of trying to reshape their opportunities are left untold. However, sometimes it takes someone from the inside to give a voice to the voiceless. 

So many Haitians, including children, lost limbs in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. They have been stigmatized, considered outcasts and called "kokobe," meaning "cripple" in Creole. We speak with a seven-year-old boy and his mother, who show us how they are slowly changing that stigma.

Yeva Hrytsak, a ballet student in New York City, remembers the “unthinkable” phone call she received from her family in Ukraine – a phone call that threw her life into turmoil.

A baby with three parents?

Actor Courtney B. Vance opens up about family’s mental health battle; encourages others to seek help.

Aleppo's emergency Dar Al-Shifaa hospital is perhaps the one place in Syria that defines the brutality and randomness of the country's civil war. The doctors treat some ten to 15 children every day. Warning: this video contains graphic content.

Hundreds of thousands danced, wept and prayed in joyful pandemonium Friday after 18 days of peaceful pro-democracy protests forced President Hosni Mubarak to surrender power to the military, ending three decades of authoritarian rule.

On September 11, 2001, four planes hijacked by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people in a matter of hours. This is how that day unfolded.

In a flawless operation that unfolded before a hopeful, transfixed world, 33 miners who were trapped for more than two months deep beneath the Chilean earth were raised one by one through a smooth-walled shaft of rock.