• Erie longs for its manufacturing past, but what’s the future?

    Erie longs for its manufacturing past, but what’s the future?

    Feb 23, 2017 12:14 AM EST

    ... a coal miner, worked his butt off. They moved up here when I was 1 years-old to go to work at G.E. My brothers and my nephews, they all worked at G.E. They wanted me to go down to G.E., but I said, I like this ...

  • Michelle Obama's legacy spans from healthy food to girls' empowerment

    Michelle Obama's legacy spans from healthy food to girls' empowerment

    Dec 24, 2016 08:17 PM EST

    ... out for military families. And when the first lady put in the White House garden, "it made me think about eating better food and losing weight," Inara said. "Without her I'm not sure I would have done that." Norfolk, Virginia, 10th-grader Kassidy Carey canvassed for Hillary Clinton and ...

  • Sister's worry over another deployment inspires this Veterans Day poem

    Sister's worry over another deployment inspires this Veterans Day poem

    Nov 11, 2016 05:04 PM EST

    ... Read next: How a WWII pilot explained the quiet moments after an enemy attack “Boy” is one of several poems that Marquette wrote about her brother’s deployment in her debut collection, “May Day,” which was just published by Graywolf Press. When she goes to poetry readings, she says those ...

  • Seeking solace in poetry after a mass shooting

    Seeking solace in poetry after a mass shooting

    Jun 13, 2016 04:20 PM EST

    ... call across the wounded Charleston sky, we close our eyes and listen to the same stillness ringing in our hearts, holding onto one another like brothers, like sisters because we know wherever there is love, there is God. https://youtu.be/QnfrzvWsJD4 Black Cloth By Marcus Amaker Racism, let us ...

  • Loretta Lynn asks, 'Who's gonna miss me when I'm gone?'

    Loretta Lynn asks, 'Who's gonna miss me when I'm gone?'

    Mar 05, 2016 03:01 PM EST

    ... get together and play. A shrinking coal town, Van Lear is also known as the birthplace of Lynn, her sisters Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue Wright, who are also professional country music singers, and her brother Jay Lee, who played lead guitar for Lynn’s band. Webb lives several hundred ...

  • New House GOP chairman had early democratic roots

    New House GOP chairman had early democratic roots

    Nov 08, 2015 09:39 PM EST

    ... spent one night sweating off pounds in the gym when a teammate was hurt and Brady was too heavy to compete in his 132-pound weight class. He lost the necessary weight - Brady says 12 pounds - and wrestled, losing his match but preventing his team from forfeiting. "They were tough ...

  • The new tool colleges are using in admissions decisions: big data

    The new tool colleges are using in admissions decisions: big data

    Aug 21, 2015 06:24 PM EST

    ... how many IC PEERS friends they made. The idea is to learn how interested a candidate is in the college, Ithaca officials said. The Big Brother approach to using data in this way is not without its critics. “I really didn’t think about how the school might use that ...

  • How a city reckons with its 'Straight Outta Compton' roots

    How a city reckons with its 'Straight Outta Compton' roots

    Aug 14, 2015 09:05 PM EST

    Eric Wright Jr., son of famed N.W.A. rapper “Eazy-E,” wears a diamond-encrusted mini bust of his father around his neck. The real “E” was a 5-foot-5 rapper with a relatively high-pitched voice that boomed through the late 1980s as the frontman of gangsta ...

  • Obama returns to Kenya, reunites with father's family

    Obama returns to Kenya, reunites with father's family

    Jul 24, 2015 07:31 PM EST

    Fulfilling the hopes of millions of Kenyans, Barack Obama returned to his father's homeland Friday for the first time as U.S. president, a long sought visit by a country that considers him a local son.

  • Watch the 1000-year-old dance tradition nearly killed by the Khmer Rouge

    Watch the 1000-year-old dance tradition nearly killed by the Khmer Rouge

    Apr 07, 2015 08:55 PM EST

    Charya Burt trained as a classical Cambodian dancer, Now, she's passing on her art and drawing on a painful family history under the Khmer Rouge to push her dance in new directions.