James Lutzweiler of Jamestown, N.C., has written two new self-published books about South Carolina and the primary cause of ...

UNITED NATIONS — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden ...

In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded and formed a new state: the Republic of South Sudan. The dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir defined Sudan’s post-colonial period.

Five years of civil war killed hundreds of thousands of people. A peace deal reached in 2018 has been fragile and not fully implemented, to the frustration of the U.S. and other international backers.

In his new book, “Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy,” legal scholar Derek Black tells the story of the resistance to Black literacy in America. The author looks at ...