John Fleming, head of black history study group, tells America.gov Black History Month should focus on positive and negative aspects of the black experience. “We were not slaves prior to being captured in Africa, and while slavery was part of our experience, … we have a 100-and-some years in freedom that we also need to deal with." More...
The United States is pleased with progress toward eliminating nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula, but North Korea also must honor pledges to issue a complete declaration of its nuclear programs. "The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is in everyone's interest," Secretary Condoleezza Rice says in talks with Chinese leaders. More...
"We thought there may be a mission accomplished here, and we may have been instrumental in opening a little door," New York Philharmonic music director Lorin Maazel says following the first performance by a U.S. orchestra in North Korea. The historic event combined Korean folk songs with some of the world’s best-known classical music. More...
Biomass has been a reliable, simple source of power since early humans burned their first logs at least 400,000 years ago. America.gov looks at the ways in which technical advances are bringing biomass-derived energy into the future and the challenges the emerging biomass industry faces. More...
Space shuttle Atlantis punches through high clouds and touches down on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center after a 12-day mission that delivered to the international space station and installed the European Space Agency’s Columbus laboratory, and set the stage for the next series of launches in the United States and Europe. More...
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