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Advocacy groups are heading to Africa to offer education and to aid government intervention on a recent series of brutal murders of persons with albinism in Tanzania.

Albinism has such deep roots in the psyche that nonfiction writers often confuse the scientific with the superficial when writing about it.

Weighing albinism's psychic impact is as vital to understanding the human aspect of this genetic condition as isolating the genes that cause it.

Albinism is a media staple, but when journalists write about it, objectivity, facts, and the human element are often lost beneath the diminishing word "albino."

After centuries of myth and misuse, projects by photographer Rick Guidotti and filmmakers such as Mashawna Thompson are putting a human face on albinism.

Despite society's turn towards political correctness, the word "albino" can seem like a vestige of pre-"person-first" labeling, which makes some angry, others accepting.