North Carolina and the country lost a legend last month with the death of the Rev. Dr. Nelson N. Johnson at age 81. He is ...

Bright spots in our nation’s ability to address this crisis are few, writes Kevin Fagan. And it’s no mystery why.

She grew up poor in Virginia, and while her family ... What’s astonishing is that so many Americans, no matter how marked and downtrodden, remain up for the fight.

If the Angus Reid numbers hold until the next election, Canada’s poor and downtrodden are just the latest atypical ...

The cleric also urged wealthy Nigerian pastors to focus on helping the downtrodden instead of investing ... rather than use their wealth to help the poor around them, the majority of them are ...

Being poor is expensive. You don’t need to be told that, especially if you’re always living paycheck to paycheck and are struggling to get by; you’ve noticed. Still, when you’re just ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...