The author Ishmael Reed said President Obama's mere presence in the Oval Office summoned "all the demons of American racism ... from the sewer." What will happen to those demons once he leaves office?
On game day, 70,000 football fans pack Doak Campbell Stadium to watch Florida State roar to victory. I wait for the post-party quiet of the following morning to wander through campus with Maria, knowing that a return to this place could be risky.
Jamaican lottery scams target nearly 300,000 Americans a year, costing them $300 million annually -- and leading to suicides among the most vulnerable victims.
Eric Poppleton survived the quake in Nepal, but soon learned his best friend, Tom Taplin, was killed on Everest. Eric didn't hesitate: He risked his own life to bring Tom home.
Bettina Hager is helping mobilize a crusade to enshrine women's rights in the U.S. Constitution. Her biggest opponent? Lack of knowledge, she says, that the Equal Rights Amendment failed in 1982.
With an avid trial watcher's sharp eye, Ann O'Neill is "The 13th Juror" for CNN's audience. Read her dispatches from the trials for the Boston Marathon bomber and the Aurora theater killer.
For 23 days, a young Philly ballclub hit the road in a vintage 1947 bus for a civil rights barnstorming tour across the Deep South. They set out to play some ball and, more significantly, make history real.
In eastern Iowa, Islam's faithful survived decades of segregation, post-9/11 backlash and even the great flood of 2008. But now the goodwill that took decades to build is at risk of crumbling.
This isn't another shark story that will ruin your beach vacation. It is, no doubt, a tale of predator and prey. But it is also something greater: It's about fortitude and courage.
Gilbert Baker was overwhelmed when he saw the White House lit up like a rainbow. "I thought, 'I don't have to worry about making the rainbow flag a success anymore.'"
A man who built a good life for himself faces deportation to China because of a crime he committed two decades ago. His lawyer says Daniel Maher is a pawn in a high-stakes political game.
If you want to know what Southern heritage is all about, don't follow the debate over the Confederate flag. Follow the money, says one historian and native Southerner.
The Supreme Court made headlines in two cases that profoundly affect the lives of millions of Americans. But is the court's mission really about change, or making sure change never happens?
Why the future Pope was exiled to Cordoba, Argentina, for two years -- and how the painful lessons he learned there are transforming the Catholic Church.
The Walker family from Argentina traveled 13,000 miles in a remodeled VW bus to be in Philadelphia for the papal visit. Never in their wildest dreams did they imagine they would actually meet the Pope. But on Sunday, their phone rang at 6 a.m. It was the Vatican calling.
The seminary where Francis is staying in Philly has seen a three-fold increase in new students. Among them is Chris Massaro, who says his decision was influenced not by the new Pope but by priests and ex-girlfriends.
The president helped negotiate a deal with Iran, normalize relations with Cuba and saw the Supreme Court uphold Obamacare. But has he become a "transformational" leader like Reagan?
Four years after claiming she was raped by Gadhafi's thugs, Libyan Emam al-Obeidi is now just another inmate in the Boulder County Jail. Now she is the one branded as the aggressor.
I was wandering around the rolling plains of northwest Oklahoma looking for one person -- one person -- who believes in climate change science when I met the woman dressed all in yellow.
It's one of the clearest injustices of climate change: The Marshall Islands likely won't exist if we warm the planet 2 degrees. I traveled to the remote Pacific to learn what it's like to try to process that doomsday forecast.
It's been his beat for 17 years -- and his life's mission. Now Deon Joseph sees an interest in Skid Row that didn't exist when downtown L.A. was a shell no one visited. What happens when 50,000 people move next door?
It is a powerful need: to see the man who shaped your life from afar for almost 13 years. For 14-year-old Jesús and his mother, it was enough to propel them on a dangerous and illegal journey.
The story of suspended NFL player Ray Rice raised the question: What goes on in the mind of a batterer? A man who has abused opens up. So does his victim.
Ministering to death row inmates and learning the intricacies of American criminal justice, Sister Helen Prejean of "Dead Man Walking" fame says "botched" executions unmask a botched system.
There's more than one way to measure a pontiff's influence. Ask around -- in Boston and beyond, among Catholics and atheists alike -- and it's easy to find people eager to share how one man changed their lives.
One tragic number is known: 22 veterans kill themselves every day. Another is not: how many military spouses, siblings and parents are killing themselves. What is war's true toll?
With 95.5 million passengers and 930,000 takeoffs and landings, Atlanta's airport is No. 1. CNN pulls back the curtain to expose a world unto itself -- and countless untold stories.
As America marked the anniversary of the Boston terrorist attack, survivors of three earlier bombings describe their journeys forward — and offer poignant words of hope.
She came to America after the Taliban hacked off her nose and ears, a symbol of the oppression of women in Afghanistan. Since then, the fairy-tale ending everyone hoped for has remained elusive.
He was a troubled 13-year-old when he finally found a home, with parents and siblings who embraced him. But Charles Daniel would live only two more years. It was time enough to change everything — and everyone.
She's been a pocket and purse accessory to millions of Americans. She's provided weather forecasts and restaurant tips, been mocked as useless and answered absurd questions about what she's wearing.
For decades, Muslims say, Hollywood has cast their faith in an ominous light. After 9/11, the typecasting only increased. But American Muslims may be finally smashing the silver-screen stereotypes.
The knock came for Pat Szpunar one afternoon in September 2012. At her door were two police detectives. Thus she became part of an exclusive club that none of its members asked to join.
An invitation to dine with novelists Elmore and Peter Leonard promised a rare opportunity to learn how these masters of crime fiction spin it into gold. Oh, the stories they told.
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