Melanie Eversley News Today

Struggle and your freedom, your democracy, is in his legacy. The world pays tribute to Nelson Mandela. Thousands of South Africans along with dozens of World Leaders at the stadium in soweto. Four u. S. President s in the crowd. President obama shook hands with fidel castro from cuba. Hes uniting people from all over the world. He is uniting us. Its wonderful. Very festive atmosphere, dancing and singing but weather has impacted the ceremony. When it rains the gates of heaven are open as well. A...

Four African-American women in New York share their thoughts about what Juneteenth and freedom mean to them now.

Pastor Tracy Gantt and his wife Sunshine have fought addiction and homelessness and now run the only homeless shelter in Pickens County, S.C..

It was a Sunday afternoon last month in the village of Leldaet, Kenya, and Kip Tisia’s mother and sister-in-law were cooking a feast. The family had just watched a livestream of Tisia’s brother, Elkana Langat, winning the Maratona di Ravenna, Italy, with a time of 2 hours, 10 minutes, 33 seconds. A few weeks before, another brother, Kiprono Langat Clement Ken, had won the Rome Marathon in 2:08:23. Tisia, himself a winner of multiple marathons in upstate New York and Cleveland, Ohio, was gidd...