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Woodson, the author of the young adult novel Brown Girl Dreaming, says that growing up in South Carolina, she knew that the safest place was with her family. Originally broadcast Dec. 10, 2014.

Over the past few months, case tallies have dipped toward zero, only to bounce back up. Health officials worry the outbreak could never end if people keep hiding cases and dead bodies.

This week's selection of articles and essays covers a surprising economic fact about seniors, the psychological damage done to juveniles in solitary and a look at the South Carolina church shooting.

The North Carolina-based family band responded to the Charleston shootings with a call to unite that channels the gospel often performed at "Mother Emanuel."

Dylann Roof, 21, is suspected of killing nine people at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday night.

Verbum Dei High School is an all-male preparatory Jesuit school that caters to low-income students in Los Angeles.

The South Carolina Republican recalls his friend Clementa Pinckney, one of nine people killed in the church shooting in Charleston.

To stop elephant slaughter in Africa, zoologist Sam Wasser spent years extracting DNA from elephant dung and tissue. Much of the world's poached ivory, he discovered, comes from just two hotspots.

Director Cesar Kuriyama shoots one second of video every day as part of an ongoing project to remember the special moments of his life.

If you didn't know better, you might mistake the hubbub for American politics. But amid the fickle endorsements and dust-ups, poet Simon Armitage won election as the newest Oxford professor of poetry.