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Miss Kim's journey from Vietnamese village to American capital city

Miss Kim’s journey from Vietnamese village to American capital city

When the doctors couldn’t completely remove the large and painful cyst on her son Kent’s lower back, Chung Kim Do, who insists that we call her Miss Kim, took matters into her own hands. Miss Kim, … Read more >>

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Warden Burl Cain of Louisiana State Penitentiary advocates

Warden Burl Cain of Louisiana State Penitentiary advocates “moral rehabilitation”

Burl Cain, 69, warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary for about 17 years, arranges for us to view the 18,000-acre prison, the largest maximum security penitentiary in America, from its Mississippi River edge. That’s the way Samuel … Read more >>

Baton Rouge-Angola, LA Featured Race and Ethnicity

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A First Birthday Party for a Great, Great, Great-Granddaughter
Muscatine, Iowa: A site for sunsets, appropriately, on the last day of our 14,063-mile trip
Chicago, Second City or second-rate?
Looking in Seattle for a Dynamited Garage and Finding a Twain-Type Mississippi River Story
What Julie Pham learned managing a Vietnamese newspaper in the Pacific Northwest
The sights and sounds of Pike Place
From the Mekong to the Mississippi
Alameda Ghigliones demonstrate the immigrant entrepreneurial spirit with produce business, trucking company
Natalie Sheppard discusses being a black Mormon in the Salt Lake City area
We drove through memorable-monikered Louisiana towns to get to a
Remembrances of death as well as life in Unionville
Our race across the West takes us to Virginia City, Carson City and Angels Camp
Ben Jaffe, heir to Preservation Hall, philosophizes about New Orleans jazz
Miss Kim's journey from Vietnamese village to American capital city
Before Occupy Wall Street there was <em>The Greening of America</em>
A story of hope, not hopelessness, in Julesburg, Colorado
In the middle of white Nebraska, Lexington is almost two-thirds Hispanic
Family history abounds in Kansas
Visiting the Matthew Shepard murder site, 13 years later
The Pyros of Seattle's Gas Works Park
We begin our westward trip at the Pony Express Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri
Mexican American artist Andy Valdivia depicts overcoming violence, poverty and “Mexican Heaven”
Warden Burl Cain of Louisiana State Penitentiary advocates
Twain trip's low-point: Theft in San Francisco
Small river towns of Keokuk, IA, and Cape Girardeau, MO, showcase Twain’s writings and letters

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