Growing up behind walls at Mitch Albom's Haitian orphanage
Haiti's gangs have near-total control of Port-au-Prince. Bestselling author Mitch Albom runs an orphanage in the city. Children there grow up and get an education in a haven behind walls.
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3/15/2026: Choke Point; Laser Focus; Growing Up Behind Walls
First, a report on ships stranded by the Strait of Hormuz closure. Then, could lasers help fend off Iran's drones? And, a look inside author Mitch Albom's Haiti orphanage.
In a Haitian city run by gangs, Mitch Albom focuses on protecting kids
In Port-au-Prince, Haiti's gang-controlled capital, there's an orphanage taking in the most at-risk kids. It's run by bestselling author Mitch Albom and his wife Janine.
Inside author Mitch Albom's Haiti orphanage
In Port-au-Prince, Haiti's gang-controlled capital, there's an orphanage taking in the most at-risk kids. It's run by bestselling author Mitch Albom and his wife Janine.
Mitch Albom on power of truth
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The enduring popularity of "Tuesdays with Morrie"
After sportswriter Mitch Albom reconnected with retired university professor Morrie Schwartz, who was dying of ALS (a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's Disease), their weekly conversations became the basis of Albom's bestselling "Tuesdays with Morrie." Twenty-five years after the book's publication, "Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel talks with Albom about how its examination of impending death turned his life inside-out.
Mitch Albom on lessons learned from "Tuesdays with Morrie"
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Author Mitch Albom on new story "Human Touch"
Author Mitch Albom is writing a new story to raise awareness for coronavirus relief in his native city, Detroit. His popular books include "Tuesdays With Morrie" and "The Five People You Meet In Heaven." "Human Touch" is free, and he is publishing one chapter online every week. Albom joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss the endeavor.
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The Democratic presidential candidates debate in New Hampshire Saturday night, but the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns have been sparring all day over a data breach; Before "Tuesdays With Morrie" made him a bestselling author, Mitch Albom actually swung and missed at a career in music.
Before "Tuesdays With Morrie" made him a bestselling author, Mitch Albom actually swung and missed at a career in music
Before "Tuesdays With Morrie" made him a bestselling author, Mitch Albom actually swung and missed at a career in music. Now he's using that failure as inspiration for his latest book. Jim Axelrod has more.
Web extra: Mitch Albom's Haitian orphanage
After the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, author Mitch Albom helped build and expand the Have Faith Haiti Mission & Orphanage in Port-au-Prince. Here, Albom and correspondent Nancy Giles are serenaded by the students.
When Mitch Albom found Chika
In 2010, when an earthquake devastated Haiti killing nearly a quarter-million and leaving millions more injured and homeless, author Mitch Albom ("Tuesdays With Morrie") traveled to Port-au-Prince to try to help, and found children huddling in an orphanage. And while many people say they will come back to a disaster site and never do, Albom did, time and again, bringing volunteers from Detroit who rebuilt the orphanage and built a new school. But Albom also brought back home a little girl, Chika, who helped create a family with Albom and his wife, Janine Sabino, inspiring his latest book, "Finding Chika." Nancy Giles reports.
Mitch Albom writes new story to raise money for COVID-19 relief
Albom is publishing one chapter online every week, and it's free to read.
Mitch Albom's mission
The "Tuesdays With Morrie" author, after helping rebuild a Haiti orphanage wrecked by the 2010 earthquake, met a little girl, Chika, who changed everything
Author Mitch Albom discusses new book
Author Mitch Albom joins to discuss his new book, "The Next Person You Meet in Heaven," the sequel to his best-selling book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," which has touched readers' lives for 15 years.
Author Mitch Albom on using death to illuminate life
Albom's new book, "The Next Person You Meet in Heaven," is a sequel to the popular story "The Five People You Meet In Heaven"
Mitch Albom on lasting lessons of "Tuesdays with Morrie"
The best-selling book was released 20 years ago but continues to find new audiences
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