Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is being honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital before a second service in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy ...

Michael Robertson grew up singing church songs out of hymn books—classics like “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” and “Lord, I ...

Christmas Carols, like all hymns ... As the National Baptist Union put it, “MacGimsey wanted “Sweet Little Jesus Boy” to echo the senti­ments of Black Christians in the Civil War era.

FOX 5 Atlanta provided live coverage of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's state funeral for Saturday Jan. 4, 2025.

Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pagean ...

The procession stopped at the farm where the future president toiled alongside the Black sharecroppers ... “Hail to the Chief ...

Analysis: Carter navigated the barbed wire of the politics of religion, Eric Garcia reports. In doing so, he ran his race and he kept his faith ...

“Being with you today, I am reminded of the enduring words of a favorite hymn ... Black people. When he opposed it, Georgians boycotted his peanut business. In 2009, he left the Southern Baptist ...

Thursday concluded six days of national rites that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months ...

Carter outlived much of his Cabinet and inner circle, but remained especially close to Young — a friendship that brought together a white Georgian and Black Georgian who grew up in the era of ...