Two men close to Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the small West African ...

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 ...

Here is our only interaction with human life.”   Cedar Annenkovna reaches through the 12-inch slot on the cell door. The steel bars reach well above her head and anchor into a cement block in the ...

A civil jury has ruled that Louisiana parish officials who threatened to arrest and imprison an environmental activist while ...

"I feel happy. As a mother, I have suffered a lot from not being with my daughter and for the times she has cried without me, ...

Law enforcement agencies are searching for a 44-year-old inmate who escaped from the Avoyelles Parish Jail on the evening of ...

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

This month’s focus is the Stoner Hill neighborhood. In Stoner Hill’s origin story may surprise you, Dr. Gary Joiner ...

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