After battling COVID-19 and thinking her life might end, Achut Deng came to a realization: her three sons didn’t know the full story behind their mother. Deng, 37 and a Sudanese refugee, spent 10 ...

Achut Deng was born in South Sudan and came to America as a refugee when she was sixteen years old. She recounts the story of her survival and journey to America in her memoir, Don’t Look Back. She is ...

A deadly attack in South Sudan left a six-year old Achut Deng without a family. For ten years she lived in a refugee camp where she says she didn’t have life, she only had hope. Hope that she would ...

This rebroadcast originally aired on December 19, 2022. Before she was a teenager, Achut Deng escaped civil war in South Sudan and life in a Kenyan refugee camp: “I remember what my grandmother told ...

Before she was a teenager, Achut Deng escaped civil war in South Sudan and life in a Kenyan refugee camp: “I remember what my grandmother told me, 'Don't look back. It will slow you down.'” Until ...

Before she was a teenager, Achut Deng escaped civil war in South Sudan and life in a Kenyan refugee camp. Until recently, she carried that secret... Rebroadcast: Author Achut Deng's journey of ...

As Achut Deng lay in her apartment bedroom in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, sickened alongside hundreds of her co-workers at a South Dakota meatpacking plant, she worried she was going to ...

This rebroadcast originally aired on December 19, 2022. Before she was a teenager, Achut Deng escaped civil war in South Sudan and life in a Kenyan refugee camp: “I remember what my grandmother told ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — As Achut Deng lay in her apartment bedroom in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, sickened alongside hundreds of her co-workers at a South Dakota meatpacking plant, she ...