Posts in category National & World

KINGSTON — The managing director of the International Monetary Fund on Friday praised Jamaica’s political leadership for making key economic reforms during the first year …

HAVANA — They were forgotten masters of a long-ago sound, their faces deeply lined and their hands spotted with age. Then, suddenly, at an age …

SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — They captured the hearts of America, from coast to coast, big towns and small, all the way to the White House. …

Bobby Womack, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, has died. He was 70. Womack's …

Jack J. Green, founder and publisher of two longstanding community newspapers in Virginia, died Thursday, June 26. He succumbed to chronic lung-related illness. He was …

Something is happening just beneath the fight over the name of a certain Washington, D.C., pro football team: America is working through the process of …

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. teams of special forces going into Iraq after a three-year gap will face an aggressive insurgency, a splintering military and a …

JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. — After almost 15 years, the effort to preserve the culture of slave descendants along the coast of the Southeast is entering …

A project that seeks to preserve slave dwellings has received a $25,000 grant from the federal government, to be administered by the South Carolina State …

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The new government of Antigua & Barbuda has signed an agreement with Chinese investors to build a major resort and residential development …