(CNN)Retired pastor Horace Sheffield kept the faith and received his diploma nearly six decades after first enrolling in a Georgia college. The 88-year-old may have been the oldest graduate in Shorter University’s class of 2017, but his youthful eagerness to finally earn his bachelor’s degree left university officials, friends and his family in awe. “This […]
Angel may be in a foreign country without her family, but the eight-year-old Ugandan certainly isn’t shy. “I like being on camera,” she says. “I like it because it makes me feel like I can be president.” Angel is a member of the African Children’s Choir, which is currently touring the United States, and she’s
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(CNN) – hen you look at Aida Muluneh’s work, it’s clear where her passion lies: Ethiopia. The photographer has been telling the story of Ethiopia long before it started trending this year. The country has undergone tremendous change in 2018, most of which stems from the election of its new 41-year-old Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed,
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(CNN) – Nine years of talks and several fragile agreements over how to share the water of the world’s longest river were almost thrown out of the window last week — all because of a bout of heavy rain. Read More>
(CNN) – (CNN)For decades, memories of World War I have been preserved only in murky archival film. The color of uniforms, the sound of a canon firing, the faces of soldiers are all often inscrutable, at risk of being lost to time. “They Shall Not Grow Old,” a film by award-winning director and producer Peter
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