Sheila Curran Bernard is the author of “Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies.” She breaks down the myths of his career and how he expanded folk and blues music ...

During his working career, Ray served as a prison guard at Angola Penitentiary, a game warden for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and eventually retired from state employment ...

Afterward, he visited the vacant Unit 29, where much of the violence took place, and he hired Cain, the former head of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Reeves said that under Cain’s ...

ANGOLA PRISON, LOUISIANA – OCTOBER 14, 2013: A prisoner walks thru a fenced section toward a guard tower at Angola Prison The Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, and nicknamed the ...

You never stifle an individual’s ability to be able to try to make a difference,” the artist Gary Tyler says. Of all the difficult truths he learned while incarcerated from the age of 16 for a crime ...

The M23 rebel group has made significant territorial gains along the border with Rwanda in recent weeks, closing in on Goma, ...

LAGUNA BEACH, MT, UNITED STATES, January 28, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- Grace Larson presents a compelling story of Grant Hamilton, a man shaped ...

WASHINGTON - At least 67 journalists are imprisoned across Africa reflecting the continents ongoing struggle for a free press ...

A Louisiana inmate was dropped off at a Baton Rouge bus station by accident. East Carroll Parish Officials were transporting ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - The Ypsilanti District Library has compiled a list of the most popular items requested in 2024, including fiction, nonfiction, young adult series, children’s books and movies.

“Deliberately denying medical care to people in prison is torture,” highlighting a “troubling pattern of Angolan authorities withholding medical care as a means of punishing peaceful dissent.” Jackson ...