When I was 5 years old, I believed I could be nothing but a Southern Baptist. My friends were Southern Baptists, my family ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. New Beginnings describes itself as a character-building facility for “troubled teens, ...

KEARNEY — Some might say that Stan Murdoch might have been viewing this Christmas from heaven. When he was a tall and skinny 10-year-old, he was clinging to the side of the deep end of the swimming ...

“Hers was not a voice or a face to forget. Yet, we forgot.” Those words by Alice Randall reflected the nearly lost legacy of Linda Martell, the first Black woman to top the country charts. Her ...