RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who maintained his innocence even as he served a life sentence for a murder he didn’t...
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Comedian Dave Chappelle plans to host a special block party and benefit concert in Ohio for those affected by the...
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Four hundred years after American slavery and democratic self-rule were born almost simultaneously in what became the...
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Joe Darby, a South Carolina pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal...
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Paule Marshall, an exuberant and sharpened storyteller who in fiction such as...
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When author Angela Flournoy was asked to dress as her favorite literary character for...
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cyntoia Brown, championed by celebrities as a symbol of unfair sentencing,...
By MARCELA ISAZA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey praised her late friend and idol, Toni Morrison, hailing the...
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose...
By JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later,...
