Dec. 24, 2020 12:04 PM EST
(RNS) — As each new year approaches, Ebony Pickett looks back to the dark history of the massacre that began in the little-known majority-Black enclave in Rosewood, Florida, on Jan. 1, 1923. Pickett, descended from residents of Rosewood, feels the legacy of the massacre in personal ways. She was one of the...
Dec. 23, 2020 3:32 PM EST
PARIS (AP) — Not once in the long months since the pandemic struck has 74-year-old Jean-Francois been able to leave his nursing home in eastern France to visit his daughter or sister. In fact, the retired metal worker thinks it's been two months since he last stuck his nose outside at all, as nursing...