" Songs of Flight " illuminates these stories with emotional precision and musical depth, as loving homages that return the enslaved's story back to its victim, and out of the hands of the slaveowner.

"They start shooting, I'm taking off," said Arley Washington, a protester I met on the bus, when he spotted the phalanx of ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Take a guess at how old the water in the glass next to you may be. It is practically as old as the planet itself, over 4 billion years old! While the water you are drinking right ...