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"Coffee nerd, MC and entrepreneur" Bartholomew Jones holds a green, yet-to-be-roasted coffee bean at his North Memphis storefront, Cxffeeblack.

East Africa is responsible for America's favorite morning brew

America owes its favorite beverage to East Africa, says a Memphis coffee shop owner whose trip to Ethiopia transformed his understanding of the beverage.

As It Was: Doctor Forgoes Retirement to Meet Gold Beach Needs

Seeking retirement, Dr. Wilbur Cartwright came to Gold Beach, Ore., in 1930. Instead, when the area’s only doctor quit, Cartwright spent the next 30 years…

As It Was: Reported as Dead, Actress Turns Up in Jacksonville, Ore.

Millie Perkins had never studied acting when she was selected for the title role in the 1959 film version of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Perkins’ sensitive…

16-year-old Nico Montero wrote an op-ed about getting vaccinated for his school's newspaper.

This 16-year-old wanted to get the COVID vaccine. He had to hide it from his parents

At 16, Nicolas Montero is old enough to get vaccinated on his own in some parts of the country. But he had to try to get the jabs without his parents knowing, since they're opposed to the vaccine.

A mural featuring portraits including many women in Mosul, Iraq, including celebrities like Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande. The artwork is on a wall where ISIS used to list its extremely strict rules, including that women's faces had to be covered, and the punishment for breaking them.

In Iraq's Mosul, art springs up from ruins almost 5 years after the ouster of ISIS

This vibrant street art is a sign of the spirited rebuilding going on in the northern Iraqi city, after ISIS was defeated in 2017.

South Korean Bestseller 'Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982' Gives Public Voice To Private Pain

A slim book about an everyday woman's life in South Korea became a runaway bestseller (and a movie), tapping into a growing feminism in this punishingly patriarchal country. It's now out in English.

Trans people in the U.S. have turned to underground silicone injections for decades. And it has particularly impacted trans women of color and those living in poverty.

For Trans Women, Silicone 'Pumping' Can Be A Blessing And A Curse

"Pumping" refers to silicone injections, a kind of underground plastic surgery. Turning to pumping has been a reality for transgender women — especially trans women of color — for decades.

Members of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina carry soil collected in honor of Joshua Halsey to his gravesite at the Pine Forest Cemetery in Wilmington, N.C., on Nov. 6. Great-granddaughters of Halsey attended the service, where the Rev. William Barber II eulogized Halsey.

A North Carolina city begins to reckon with the massacre in its white supremacist past

In 1898, a white supremacist mob burned the offices of Wilmington's Black-owned newspaper and gunned down scores of the city's African American residents. Now, the city is honoring some of the dead.

Then-candidate Joe Biden walks on stage to begin the first presidential debate in September 2020. The 2020 faceoffs may be the last of their kind.

Republicans threaten to skip traditional general election debates

The Republican National Committee has released a letter outlining complaints and will ask presidential nominees not to participate in debates put on by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

Brenda Meade, right, chair of the Coquille Tribal Council, shakes hands with members of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on June 17 after the commission approved a co-management agreement between the tribe and state.

Southwest Oregon tribe, state forge ‘model’ agreement to co-manage fish and wildlife

Amid drastic declines in Chinook salmon in the Coquille River watershed, the Coquille Indian Tribe last year began pushing the state for more authority in managing natural resources in southwest Oregon, culminating in a state commission approving an agreement.

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