(CNN)Jacob Lawrence's groundbreaking work, "The Migration of the Negro," is a series of 60 small paintings with text depicting the lives of millions of pre-World War II blacks as they moved from the oppressive South to the promise of a better life in the North. One frame in particular, No. 22, shows three black men dressed in their Sunday best, handcuffed, heads bowed standing in front of a window adorned with prison bars. The caption reads: No. 22 "Another of the social causes of the migrants'...
PARIS (Reuters) - Qatar has agreed to buy 24 Dassault Aviation-built Rafale fighter jets in a deal worth 6.3 billion euros ($7.05 billion), the French government said on Thursday, as the Gulf Arab state looks to boost its military firepower amid regional instability. Tensions in the...
It’s been a wild ride for MESSENGER, the NASA spacecraft that has offered mankind its best insight into the mysteries of Mercury. Just 10 feet long and no heavier than a Friesian cow, the tiny ship has traveled 5 billion miles, flown by three planets and completed the first-ever map of the “first...
VOA NewsVietnam is holding a parade to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the military victory that ended the Vietnam War and reunified the country under communist rule. As top officials looked on Thursday, thousands of flag-waving Vietnamese soldiers, war veterans, and others marched toward the...
KATHMANDU: Rescuers on Thursday pulled a teenage boy out alive from under the wreckage of a guesthouse in Nepal five days after it collapsed in a massive weekend earthquake. Police...
Nepalese riot police officials stand guard as earthquake survivors desperate to leave show their anger after promised bus services failed to materialize Wednesday in Kathmandu. (Philippe Lopez, AFP/Getty Images) KATHMANDU, nepal — The first...
BEIJING — A Chinese city has reported the killings of three villagers in an area where North Korean border guards have been accused of crossing over to commit thefts and slayings. The Helong city government said a 55-year-old man surnamed Zhao, his 26-year-old daughter and another man aged 67 were...
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Promising to fight what he deems "obscene levels" of income disparity and a campaign finance system that is a "real disgrace," independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he will run for president as a Democrat. In an interview with The Associated Press, Sanders...
