In 2008, the news agency Reuters sent me to Cuba to be its Havana correspondent with the full expectation that the increasingly frail Fidel Castro would die during my five-year stint there and that ...

NCIS: Origins Season 1, Episode 5, "Last Rites" is still an origin story, but not for Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Instead, it takes a detour to explain a formative case in young Mike Franks' history, giving ...

Florida quarterback Feleipe Franks celebrates the Gators' dramatic win over Tennessee with fans Saturday at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. [Brad McClenny/The Gainesville Sun] In Feleipe Franks’ history ...

During Black History Month, I frequently think about my great-grandfather who was born a slave in North Carolina in 1834. I think of how he made education such a vital part of his life, as he was ...