Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

American to appreciate that we live in a world of very inventive, smart people.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, is being honored with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital.

In rural Virginia, a single land transfer is a first step toward correcting a long history of land loss for Black Southern ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, is being honored with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, is being honored with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital. He will later be honored a second service and burial ...

Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pagean ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital, followed by a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown that ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, who is the 11th Mississippi recipient.

The farmer, Banamali Penthei had raised paddy over five acres of land on a sharecropping basis but saw his hard work washed away by the relentless rains. A father of three daughters and a son ...

Swain had cultivated paddy on one acre he owned and two acres on a sharecropping basis with money borrowed from a money lender. After inspecting his rain-ravaged fields on Thursday, he collapsed ...

Writer and musician Emma John takes a trip along the Mississippi Blues Trail to learn more about the genre's origins and ...