BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, will be the keynote speaker for the 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Event at the ...

Lisa Merton and Alan Dater, the producers of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, attended the Nobel laureate and environmental activist’s funeral in Kenya in October. Merton offered ...

Last month, ovarian cancer claimed another dynamic woman, 71 year-old social activist, ecologist and Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai. Born in 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya, Maathai attended school during a ...

Born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940, Wangari Maathai — born Wangari Muta — loved playing by the stream near her home, where she would go daily to fetch water. The sight of frog eggs floating in the stream ...

Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai talks about ongoing political unrest in Kenya. Violence erupted there nearly three weeks ago after the disputed election of President Mwai Kibaki. Maathai, a former ...

"Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai" is broadcast tonight on PBS. Here, Lisa Merton looks back on making the film in Kenya and struggling to capture the sense of divinity and hope projected by ...

Viola Davis celebrated Wangari Maathai in a now-deleted Instagram post after her Kenyan fans teased her The A-list Hollywood actress shared Maathai's winning the Nobel Peace Prize as breaking news ...

Wangari Maathai, the professor-turned-activist who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for standing up to Kenya's oppressive regime, is no stranger to the turmoil of politics. But even Maathai was shocked ...