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We're less than a week away from Halloween and many of you will start celebrating this weekend.

It was a flair ...flashing … at age nine – the literary skills that began to shine for Malachi Smith, at White Marl All-Age School, when the notice was sent out that poems were needed to be published in the school’s magazine, The Beacon. Even now...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man wanted in connection to an execution-style shooting in Whitehaven over the summer was arrested Monday morning after police responded to a business burglary in the Binghampton area. Calvin Mitchell, 32, who had an outstanding warrant for first-degree murder, was taken into custody inside a fenced-in area outside a warehouse on […]

Oprah Winfrey and her father, Vernon Winfrey, are both talking about Calvin Mitchell, the man, who has been dubbed the mogul’s “secret son” and who ambushed

Nineteen Wenonah High School students handed out 100 fresh-baked sweet potato pies in remembrance of the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.

The youth presence at the August 13 Jamaica Poetry Festival was strong enough to warm the heart of an old head like Yasus Afari, its founder. While stalwarts again dominated the event, held ...

It was a week of hope, starting with Yasus Afari's Jamaica Poetry Festival which sparkled with the classic poetry of Professor Edward Baugh, the youthful voice of octogenarian Boris Gardiner, and ...

The 13th staging of the Jamaica Poetry Festival inside the Louise Bennett Garden Theatre on August 13 was a Sunday dessert of spoken words, songs and movements. And the piece de resistance for the evening was Professor Edward Baugh’s poetic verve...

A leader of the roots-reggae revival during the 1990s, Yasus Afari shows similar passion for the preservation of Jamaica's creative arts. The poet's latest venture, the Jamaica Poetry Festival, t...

A fired Winston-Salem State University professor focuses on "administrative deference" in his latest plea to the N.C. Supreme Court.