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Despite being several minutes late, Marshall Bartlett lopes unhurriedly toward the wood-frame farm store, his lanky frame topped by wavy blond hair controlled under a baseball cap. The group of seven women — seniors from nearby Sardis with a few of their friends — watch him approach from the shaded porch.

“I was told I would never be able to have my own children,” said D., a nurse who is married to a military officer and lives in the Memphis area. Her voice is tense and urgent over the phone, a rush of words to get her story out.

Williams’s great grandfather, “Papa Joe” Williams, was a Black sharecropper who grew cotton on an 86-acre farm in Poplar Grove, 17 miles from Helena. Sharecropping was an inherently exploitative system. Unscrupulous landlords would often keep farming families in continual debt and sell them equipment, seed, fertilizer, and food at inflated prices. To escape the system, Papa Joe sought to buy the land.

On a crisp Saturday morning in Orsay, a southwestern suburb of Paris with some 16,500 inhabitants, the rue de Paris was bustling. But while many residents were doing their usual weekend shopping at the fishmonger or the butcher shop, further up the street, in a small former chateau that is now the town’s cultural center, about 80 people had set aside their late-morning hours to hear the “voeux” of their legislative representative to the National Assembly, Cédric Villani. The voeux, or “new year

On a perfect Sunday in late May, with blue skies and fluffy clouds straight from a Rococo painting, Yves-Marie Le Bourdonnec, the most embattled butcher in Paris, was in his element. In the village of Le Plessier-Huleu (population: 75), about 67 miles northeast of Paris, he had gathered the employees of his three-shop butchery empire, along with their families, his students, and other select associates — about 30 people in all — for an annual barbecue at the farm of one of his breeders. Le Bour

“There’s been situations that we had to defuse and it went just like this: It went from a children’s fight to the siblings coming out, to the parents coming out, to now a gun is in somebody’s hand,” Cowan said. “You put people in a confined area with limited resources, where they struggle on a daily basis — if you look at me the wrong way, that’s enough to cause a problem.”

Erica Williams, 38, didn’t know she had high blood pressure until doctors informed her when she was at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women to give birth to her third child in 2019. Afterward, she didn’t treat it seriously — “I felt fine,” she said — until perhaps two years later when she started fainting. “I didn’t know how serious it was until I started having blackouts and passing out at work,” she said. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease, the leading killer in Mem

Indianapolis hit record-high murder rates in recent years, breaking the all-time record in 2021 with 251 homicides, making it one of the most violent cities per capita in the United States. The spike reflects a national increase in gun violence during the pandemic that experts attribute to a range of factors including disruption in people’s work and personal lives, an increase in gun sales, and mental health issues. But the city is now in the midst of a promising experiment, led by faith leade