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Lost in the Woods with James Brown's Ghost

part 1 The Circus Singer and the Godfather of Soul

Race & Reality

Inside America's Hidden Border

A mentally ill man entered an ICE detention center. After 18 days in solitary, he came out on a stretcher

Going Deep

Destroyed

Rape in America's Nursing Homes

CNN Exclusive
Six women, three nursing homes and the man accused of rape
1,000+ nursing homes cited for alleged abuse
My mother was raped at 88 -- but never defeated
Inside the mind of nursing home rapist
No one believed he would rape nursing home residents. Now he is going to prison

A Gym Built on Fear

CNN Investigates
Olympic coach abused girls and Nassar covered for him, gymnasts say
Gymnast to coach: You should be in jail with Nassar
Gymnast says coach told her to kill herself
'We found our voice and we are calling you out'

The Trigger and the Choice

Part 1 The endless death of Kyle Dinkheller
Part 2 Ferguson, affected
Part 3 City of good neighbors

Belief

Islam in focus

Catholic abuse scandal

Stories of faith

Pittsburgh synagogue massacre

In Case You Missed It

LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - MAY 24: Refugees and migrants put on life jackets distributed by rescue crews of the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) 'Phoenix' vessel on May 24, 2017 off Lampedusa, Italy. The boat, one of three in the area later capsized killing more than 30 people, crewmembers from the 'Phoenix' rescued 603 people. Numbers of refugees and migrants attempting the dangerous central Mediterranean crossing from Libya to Italy has risen since the same time last year with more than 43,000 people recorded so far in 2017. In an attempt to slow the flow of migrants Italy recently signed a deal with Libya, Chad and Niger outlining a plan to increase border controls and add new reception centers in the African nations, which are key transit points for migrants heading to Italy. MOAS is a Malta based NGO dedicated to providing professional search-and-rescue assistance to refugees and migrants in distress at sea. Since the start of the year MOAS have rescued and assisted 3572 people and are currently patrolling and running rescue operations in international waters off the coast of Libya. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

'These crossings are nothing but fatal'

The naked truth

Kids for sale: 'My mom was tricked'

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Stunning admission under oath

The four reasons people commit hate crimes

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shakes his fist during a speech in Selma, Ala., Feb. 12, 1965. King was engaged in a battle with Sheriff Jim Clark over voting rights and voter registration in Selma. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

Question haunts MLK's last day in Memphis

Reporter Moni Basu took Amina, a woman who worked for her mother, to the most upscale mall in Kolkata.

I on India

Herminio Trinidad Agosto's home in Corozal, P.R., on March 13, 2018. On Feb. 13, 2018, Zoraida Santiago Torres, 58, TrinidadÕs wife died from a pulmonary disease. The family, including two sons of Santiago, live in home made with the scraps of what was left after hurricane Maria flattened the house at a hill top of Corozal. Almost six months after hurricane Maria ravaged the island over 200 thousand people remain without power. Some recent deaths have been linked to the lack of electric service, but most are not recognized as a hurricane Mara death. (Erika P. Rodriguez for CNN)

'We are the forgotten people'

Writing to survive

The dreams of 'Baby Noor'

Khizr Khan, the father of fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan, addresses a rally for Hillary Clinton in Manchester, New Hampshire, shortly before the 2016 presidential election. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik/File)

Khizr Khan's battle with Trump

Layla Barakat, left, and her son, Farris Barakat and dog, AJ, hang out on the couch at the Barakat household in Raleigh, North Carolina on Wednesday, December, 20, 2017. Three years ago, Layla's son, Deah Barakat was murdered in his home along with his wife and wife's sister.
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Brother's slaying set him on American journey

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Former U.S. President Barack Obama (R) congratulates U.S. President Donald Trump after he took the oath of office on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. In today's inauguration ceremony Donald J. Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Can Trump stop what Obama started?

White families, fleeing people of color, helped create suburban America. It's called White flight.

'White supremacists by default'

This is the photo that inspired social media outrage. President Donald Trump congratulates House Republicans at a recent White House event after they passed a bill aimed at replacing ObamaCare. Critics said the image of all white men making decisions for the rest of America looked outdated and tone-deaf.

Are white, male throwback optics dangerous?

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The return of 'racial amnesia'

Sherry Johnson, 58, poses for a portrait on January 18, 2017 in Tallahassee, Florida. Johnson is organizing a play based on her life and a book tour after the bill passes she has been advocating for for the last 5 years which would make child marriage illegal in the state of Florida. (Cassi Alexandra for CNN)

She's fighting to end child marriage

Boston, MA - 06/07/18 -- Kate Weissman meets with her oncologist Dr. Whitfield Growdon, at Massachusetts General Hospital on August 7, 2018, in Boston, Massachusetts. After a long battle with cervical cancer, fighting with her insurance company to pay for her treatment, and finally having to pay $95,000 up front for advanced photon-beam radiation therapy, Kate Weissman is cancer free - this is a follow-up appointment with her oncologist to get the all-clear. (Kayana Szymczak for CNN)

Parents funded her $95,000 treatment

We know that MLK fought against racism but he had a lot to say about other contemporary issues not normally associated with civil rights, historians and activists say.

Three ways MLK speaks to our time

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'The first time I realized I was black'

In this Baltimore Skyline, you can see how there is the old Dominos sugar plant, mixed with the new hotels of the inner harbor. An idea of growing renovation and loss of the old ways can be seen in this image.

'Lord of the Flies' comes to Baltimore

A woman, not a man, was the first person to preach an Easter sermon, according to the Bible. A painting shows a resurrected Jesus appearing first to Mary Magdalene.

How Easter became a #MeToo moment

April 9, 2018; Morristown, TN, USA; Esmeralda Baustista holds a photograph of her brother Luis Bautista-Martinez, who was one of the workers detained when ICE raided Southeastern Provisions, a cattle slaughterhouse in Grainger County. With Bautista is daughter Yemaya and friend Yaqueline Cruz. The three attended a prayer vigil at Hillcrest Elementary School in Morristown, TN held in response to the raid. Mandatory Credit: Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel via USA TODAY NETWORK/Sipa US

After ICE raid, hundreds missed school

Dady Jean and her daughter, Schnaika Ulysses, 9, came to the United States in 2010 after a devastating earthquake hit their home in Haiti. Schnaika was injured in the earthquake and still suffers physical impairments for which she sees medical care for. Dady has lived in Georgia since that time but is at risk of deportation due to the White House ending The Temporary Protection Status of Haitians in 2019. Photo by John Nowak/CNN

Rescued from Haiti, protected no more

The secret lives of functioning heroin addicts

Anthony C. Acevedo, 93, an Army medic who documented the horrors inside a Nazi slave camp, was laid to rest Thursday during a ceremony at Riverside National Cemetery.

Medic who documented Nazi horror dies

Miriam, 39, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, poses for a portrait at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Thursday, April 20, 2017. Miriam, a housekeeper and cook with three children, recently filed paperwork giving her oldest son guardian wrights over the other children in case something happens and she is detained or deported.
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'Folks don't feel safe'

The spiritual message hidden in 'Star Wars'

Maria Ridulph of Sycamore, Illinois in a photo possibly taken at age 5.

The oldest cold case to be solved?

Visitors look at an exhibit about the Dead Sea scrolls during a media preview of the new Museum of the Bible, a museum dedicated to the history, narrative and impact of the Bible, in Washington, DC, November 14, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Mystery at the new Bible museum

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The guilt-free gospel of Donald Trump

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Toxic tensions in the heart of 'Cancer Alley'

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The Pope's dark night of the soul

A Donald Trump supporter holds up an anti-Muslim poster as he awaits anti-Donald Trump protesters marching through the streets in Cleveland, Ohio, near the Quicken Loans Arena site of the Republican National Convention July 18, 2016. / AFP / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

The secret costs of Islamophobia

06 Nebraska Ellen White

Where support for Trump and Obamacare soar

Megachurch, megascandal

Anias (left) and Jadon McDonald lay in a red wagon at their goodbye party at Montefiore Children's Hospital in The Bronx, New York, N.Y. on December 13, 2016.

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Formerly conjoined twins' amazing journey

Bishop Eddie Long speaks, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010, near Atlanta.

The Bishop Eddie Long I knew

Why a coveted visa is now reviled

From Gandhi to guns

Sacred land at center of pipeline dispute

K.S. Narendran is no closer to knowing what happened to his wife, a passenger on MH370.

Search ends but husband's journey goes on

Diapers hang on the wall at Lily's Place in Huntington, WV on September 2, 2016. Lily's Place cares for newborn infants suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and the withdrawal from drug exposure.

How heroin is scarring the next generation

'Pro-voice' replaces judgment with conversation

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Syrian crisis comes to small-town Canada

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 22: Host Whitney Dow interviews during a screening of "When The Drum Is Beating" during the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival at North Cove at World Financial Center Plaza on April 22, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)

The first time I discovered I was white

Go ahead, admit you're a racist

EL PASO, TEXAS - May 25, 2016: "When she gave me the bear, she told me she would always be with me," Yadira Lozano Odio, 31, said, her eyes welling up with tears as she described the moment she said goodbye to her best friend in Santiago de Cuba. Lozano keeps a necklace wrapped around the small stuffed panda — a gift from another close friend. The necklace, she said, was blessed by a priest in her friend's church. At the Ysleta Lutheran Mission Human Care, CEO, Pastor and Director Rev. Karl Heimer, welcomes Cubans to stay in his shelter. "These are people who are professionals and they will add to our society," Rev. Heimer, a Cuban himself, said. Hundreds of Cuban refugees have been pouring into El Paso, Tex. daily, arriving by plane into Juarez, Mexico and walking across the border to El Paso. The flights began on May 9, and ceased on May 25, 2016. Ilana Panich-Linsman for CNN.com

The last flight and first steps

People on mobile devices.

Stop texting and start speaking

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune
Ravitz-Cheroff reception, Friday, April 8, 2016.

Honoring the soundtrack of my mother's life

What is Neil Gorsuch's religion? It's complicated

What can the 9/11 children teach us?

Campers at the Tuesday's Child retreat roast marshmallows over a fire together.

A place to belong

A party of 10, raising each other

Kyle Maddison shows his friend (name needed, French camper) a tattoo he got in remembrance of his father, who died on 9/11. Their friendship grew out of their participation in Tuesday's Child.

Bound by terror: 'I've got you'

The dirty secret about the civil rights movement

The forgotten victims of gun violence

'I knew 17' who died in Orlando

John LaDue is escorted to the Waseca County Courthouse for his sentencing hearing Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, in Waseca, Minn. LaDue, who was charged more than a year and a half ago in a plot to bomb his Waseca school, was sentenced Monday to up to 10 years of probation and treatment at a secured autism spectrum disorder facility in Georgia. (Pat Christman/Mankato Free Press via AP)

The massacre that didn't happen

Tom Sullivan and Jane Dougherty

The 'other' gun lobby

The gun club no one wants to join

Richmond CA, where they offer suspects stipends to turn in their guns and go straight.

Paying kids not to kill

Linda Wilder Bryan who lost her son Lawrence in a shooting last August prays during the "Die in, Lay in" Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, in memory of those murdered in Savannah, Ga., during 2015. (Josh Galemore/Savannah Morning News via AP) THE EXAMINER.COM OUT; SFEXAMINER.COM OUT; WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

Southern charm, deadly streets

Alcohol is poured away into a New York sewer during the prohibition era, circa 1920. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

This is how the NRA loses

Maya Gurung, 11, poses inside her foster home in Kathmandu.

From disaster, a ray of hope for one girl

In Sankhu, a small village devastated by the earthquake 100 local workers hired by the IOM clear rocks and dirt almost a year after the earthquake.

Nepal, a year after the quake: 'Help us'

BELGIUM. Brussels. March 23, 2016.
Brussels district of Molenbeek. Khadija Zamouri.
Two blasts hit Brussels Airport (Zaventem) on March 22 morning, another one struck the Maelbeek metro station an hour later, in the European district.
20 people died at the Maelbeek metro station and 10 died at the airport, more than 100 peolple were injured.
Belgium has now raised its terror threat to its highest level (Level 4).

A tale of two Brussels

Makeshift memorials have popped up outside the Bataclan to honor those killed and wounded inside.

Inside the Bataclan

Faces of a divided island

Do these '60s children hold Zika clue?

The taste of salt, the smell of nitro

OAK CREEK, WI - AUGUST 10: Family and friends gather at Oak Creek High School to mourn the loss of 6 members of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin on August 10, 2012 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Bhai Seeta Singh, Bhai Parkash Singh, Bhai Ranjit Singh, Satwant Singh Kaleka, Subegh Singh, and Parmjit Kaur Toor were killed when Wade Michael Page, a suspected white supremacist, went on a shooting rampage at the temple August 5. Page also died at the temple after being shot by police then shooting himself. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Killed for their beards and turbans

The sweat lodge ceremony, as intended

Mary stands in front of Wildwood Hall which is now located in the same location as the old Pike House on the Florida State University campus. Mary said it makes her feel better to know tha the Pike House were she was gang raped no longer exists. Mary returned to Florida State University for the first time in 25 years in an effor to complete the healing process after she was gang raped by Pi Kappa Alpha franternity brothers in 1988.

Ghosts of rape past

US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton looks on during a campaign rally in Tempe, Arizona, on November 2, 2016.

The public and private faith of Hillary Clinton

'I'm an abortion travel agent'

Meet Harry the atheist

Marcelas Owens, 17, at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. Marcelas attended the signing of the Affordable Care Act by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

'I'm not the Obamacare kid anymore'

Though his squad had been ordered not to attempt any rescues of American pilots who had been shot down, Tom Hudner ignored that command and crash-landed into a mountain clearing to save his friend, Jesse Leroy Brown.

A war hero who was a stranger in his own land

With their brightly colored running shoes, Icebreakers and guest runners go over a tricky part of the route before hitting the road in Atlanta.

Running for -- not from -- mental illness

'Outlaw bikers' open up about Waco

CENTENNIAL, CO - JUNE 04: James Holmes, left, and his defense attorney, Daniel King, in court Tuesday morning June 04, 2013 for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center. Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 others in a shooting rampage at an Aurora theater, July 20th, 2012. The court accepted James Holmes plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and has ordered a sanity evaluation at the Colorado Mental Health Institute of Pueblo. (Photo By Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The 13th Juror

Omima Adam's food truck

Most diverse U.S. place? Not where you think

The new beach access runs alongside the Ackerberg home, designed by architect Richard Meier and built in the mid-1980s.

Billionaire's Beach just got a lot less exclusive

When exorcists need help, they call him

What causes coincidences?

Why Bigfoot is getting nervous

Beyond Goodbye

After his arrest in 1996, John du Pont had this sign erected on his estate.

The crazy du Pont next door

The (former) deadliest LGBT attack

Bullets holes are seen through the glass door of a cafe near Casa Nostra on November 14.

Friday night interrupted

The poor kids of Silicon Valley

On patrol with Skid Row's 'angel cop'

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My 417-mile trip down 'Apocalypse River'

'It's hard to give each other our pain and sorrow'

The Uncounted: What is war's true toll?

24 hours in the world's busiest airport

Saving Aesha

The gift of Charles

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'I'm the original voice of Siri'

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Our Ferguson, 'After MB'

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The turncoat: 'Thug Willie' spills FLDS secrets

Driven to death by phone scammers

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Bringing Tom home

KHUMJUNG DISTRICT, NEPAL | 2015-05-04 | An old woman sits in front of her destructed house in Kyongma village, that was hit badly by the earthquake.

Heaven, dotted with pockets of hell

DC Director of the ERA Coalition Bettina Hager is seen in the office of YWCA CEO Dara Richardson-Heron in Washington, D.C. on Friday, February 13, 2015. At 30 years-old, Bettina is one of the younger leaders of the new push to bring the ERA discussion back to the forefront.

Female, 30 and on a mission

Carolyn Maloney, left, is a New York Democrat who has been fighting to pass and ratify the Equal Rights Amendment for 20 years. Every congressional session, she has reintroduced the amendment -- and this new GOP-led session will be no exception. This time, though, she has a new -- and unlikely -- ally: Cynthia Lummis, a Tea Partier from Wyoming. Here, Lummis looks over a list of potential ERA supporters in Congress.

The politics of feminism: An unlikely partnership

Women in the world: Where the U.S. falters

The rapist next door

The girl whose rape changed a country

Voices of Auschwitz

The world's most populated river basin, "Mother Ganga" certainly isn't the world's cleanest or prettiest waterway, yet it remains India's most sacred river for Hindus.
Witnessing pilgrims converge at the bathing and funeral ghats in the holy city of Varanasi may be one of the most profound travel experiences you'll ever have, but it's safer to swim much further upstream, closer to the Ganges' Himalayan source.

Hotel Death

Iraq's Baby Noor: an unfinished miracle

Moulkheir Mint Yarba escaped slavery in 2010. She says all her children are the result of rape by her master.

Slavery's last stronghold

War & Fashion

'If only they had treated him' before he killed

'My son is mentally ill,' so listen up

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A Westerner's Indian 'awakening'

The lavish homes of American archbishops

Tamir Brooks, right, and Sami Wylie look out of the windows of the 1947 vintage bus they are traveling on as they leave the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 24.

Scoring runs and catching history

Caption:ANN ARBOR, MI - SEPTEMBER 27: Minnesota Golden Gophers head football coach Jerry Kill watches the action during the fourth quarter of the game against the Michigan Wolverines at Michigan Stadium on September 27, 2014 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Golden Gophers defeated the Wolvereines 30-14. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)

Grit beyond the game

Across the San Francisco Bay Area, many people are returning to communal living.

Great American Stories