In celebration of Black History Month in February, MPR News is highlighting Black history throughout the state. From a fur ...

In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite, ...

European public health officials are monitoring an outbreak linked to international travel on long-haul flights. A cluster of ...

South Africa has sent additional troops and military equipment to Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, political and ...

The fierce clashes between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the March 23 Movement (M23) armed group have left Goma International Airport littered with remnants of ...

An exhibition highlighting the plight of refugees and displaced people across the world over the last 10 years is being ...

Kenyans with questionable immigration documents on tenterhooks as crackdown on illegal immigrants gains pace in the US.

Leaders from eastern and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, where ...

Time and boundaries dissolve in these spaces while people become charged with stress, anxiety, and excitement. Throw in a ...

On Feb. 6, 1958, a British airliner crashed upon takeoff from a Munich, Germany, airport. The crash killed 23 people, ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

One Sunday in May 1917, on the first day of services at the newly built First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Athens, the congregation celebrated with a processional and mortgage burning.