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In the Southwest, There's a Nation Within a Nation

It's the remote but colorful home of the Navajo people

Kurdish woman lays flowers at a monument for the victims of Halabja massacre on its 20th anniversary in Halabja, Iraq , 16 Mar 2010

Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance Exhibit Recalls Gassing of Kurds

5,000 Kurdish men, women, children in Halabja on March 16, 1988, by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein

In One Downtown's Shadow, Life Moves Slowly

Old Salem in North Carolina revisits simple Moravian ways

Want to Go 'Resorting'?

A gussied-up old seaside town in New Jersey is one option

Marvin Dunn

Inner-City Garden Plants New Hope in Miami Neighborhood

Garden provides healthy foods, jobs in historical African American area of city

Segregationist Signs Reappear at a Presidential Estate

But it's by design, and with some blacks' blessing, as a teaching tool

Hitting the Road and Staying at Home - All at Once

Motor homes provide Americans mobility, savings

Amid Alabama Farm Fields, a Citadel of Black Learning Shines

Aerospace, bioethics programs burnish Tuskegee University's luster

US Segregation-Era Schools Get New Life

Former students lobby to save historic buildings that once educated rural African Americans

The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco pays tribute to creator of Mickey Mouse, other cartoon stars

Museum Honors Man Who Delighted Millions Around World

Disney Museum pays tribute to creator of Mickey Mouse, other cartoon stars

If You're Ever in Indianapolis, Check out the Roof

Not for leaks, but for a sublime step back in time

Long before Barack Obama became president, he was a community organizer on Chicago's south side

Barack Obama's Impact Still Felt in Chicago with Community Work

Boarded up windows and doors, police cars, signs to stop violence, young men standing idle common on south side of Chicago

Homeowners facing foreclosure come to a courthouse in hopes to renegotiate their mortgages

Philadelphia Foreclosure Prevention Program Considered Model for Nation

Lenders and homeowners work together to renegotiate terms of loans

Thousands of Orchids on View at US Botanic Garden

In a rainbow of bold colors, orchids enchant visitors

My Yearbook Photo Would Look Geeky

Except that there may not be a book to put it in

African American History Museums Offer Window to Past

Communities nationwide are opening black history museums to serve as lasting tributes

Vancouver Games Go For the Green

Organizers expect to deliver the most environmentally-friendly Olympics on record

Africa's Sahara Desert, as seen from the International Space Station's new seven-windowed cupola

International Space Station Now Has New View of World

Astronauts Complete Third Spacewalk, Open Cupola's Shutters on ISS

This image is the first taken through a first of its kind "bay window" on the International Space Station, the seven-windowed Cupola. The image shows the Sahara Desert spread out through the array of

Space Station Shutters Open to View of Sahara

Space Station's new seven-windowed cupola provides panoramic views of Earth

Entrance to Gentle Barn sanctuary

Sanctuary Provides Healing for Animals and People

Gentle Barn Foundation takes in animals so mistreated that they cannot stay at normal shelters

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