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Biden lets slip that he will deliver Jimmy Carter’s eulogy at a fundraiser

The 39th president has chosen to enter hospice care

The Independent UK

Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and triumphed

Jimmy Carter took great pride in pointing out that the United States didn’t start any new wars during his term as president. But after he left office, he launched a war against “neglected” diseases — diseases in far-off lands that most Americans will never suffer from and may not have…

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Over 38 years, Emory students quizzed and grew to love Jimmy Carter

ATLANTA — For generations of Emory University students, Jimmy Carter was more than just the nation’s 39th president.

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Commentary: Jimmy Carter was right about human rights

When I first joined the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service, I was optimistic about the positive role the United States played in the world. By the time I left not quite a decade later, I was haunted by how dangerous our shortsighted foreign policy can be.

Chicago Tribune

Jimmy Carter's African legacy: peacemaker, negotiator and defender of rights

When historians and pundits praise Jimmy Carter’s achievements as the US president and extol his exemplary post-presidential years, they mention the recognition of China, the Panama Canal Treaties and the Camp David Accords. Almost no one mentions what Carter achieved in Africa during his presidency. This is a serious oversight.

The Conversation

Ferghal Blaney - Shocking response of Government to energy real crisis for households

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Irish Mirror

Meet Soapy, Jimmy Carter’s longtime barber and fellow ‘tough old bird’

AMERICUS, Ga. — On any given day during much of James “Soapy” Herndon’s ongoing, 62-year run as a barber, passersby might have spotted his shop filled not with clients but with Secret Service agents.

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Activist Judy Heumann led a reimagining of what it means to be disabled

Heumann was instrumental in pushing to expand the civil rights of Americans with disabilities and continued to advocate for disability rights around the globe. She died on Saturday at age 75.

WEKU

Women's History Month grew out of a weeklong commemoration by Jimmy Carter in 1980

The first national Women's History Week occurred in 1980. Seven years later, Congress passed a law designating March as Women's History Month.

WEKU

The Carters: What you know may be wrong (or not quite right)

Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme

The Independent UK

I've spent 5 years researching the heroic life of Black musician Graham Jackson, but teaching his story could be illegal under laws in Florida and North Dakota

The story of Graham Jackson is a timeless tale of American ingenuity, hard work and the cream rising to the top.

The Conversation

How Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden built an enduring friendship

A long friendship between the two Democrats lasted in the decades since.

Axios

Atlanta’s Carter Center preps for future without founder

ATLANTA — The first time Paige Alexander shook President Jimmy Carter’s hand, as a 12-year-old touring the White House Rose Garden with her mother, the Atlanta native joked that she never wanted to wash her hand.

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Why 'lost their battle' with serious illness is the wrong thing to say

When a dire disease strikes, it's easy to slip into war terms to describe the experience. But that sort of talk turns life into two outcomes: winning and losing. And that's not the way life works.

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Martin Schram: Remembering — and maybe rethinking — Carter’s presidency

As Jimmy Carter began his hospice care at home in his rural Plains, Georgia, precisely where he wanted to be for his final transition, well-wishers from politics and the media began reflecting about how our 39th president’s greatest contributions came after he left Washington.

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Jimmy Carter: Family affair to the White House and beyond

When Jimmy Carter stepped onto the national stage, he brought along those closest to him, introducing Americans to a colorful Georgia family that helped shape the 39th president’s public life and now, generations later, is rallying around him for the private final chapter of his 98 years

Chicago Sun-Times

Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time

How much better off would we be today if his programs were passed by Congress?

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The Conversation

Jimmy Carter: the American president whose commitment to Africa went beyond his term

The office of former US president Jimmy Carter (98), who has been frail for some time, has announced that he will no longer seek hospital treatment for his ailments. He has instead opted for hospice care at his modest home in the rural farming village of Plains, Georgia, close to…

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Refugees and their advocates see a champion in Jimmy Carter

ATLANTA – Dr. Heval Kelli moved to metro Atlanta in 2001 as a Syrian refugee. After washing dishes early on to help support his family – the victims of violence and persecution in their homeland – he became a physician.

Los Angeles Times

Jimmy Carter's final foe: A parasitic worm that preyed on millions in Africa and Asia

ATLANTA — Just a few hours before President Jimmy Carter underwent his first radiation treatment for brain cancer, he spoke of his hope, in the time he had left, to purge the world of a parasitic worm disease.

The Conversation

How Jimmy Carter integrated his evangelical Christian faith into his political work, despite mockery and misunderstanding

“I am a farmer, an engineer, a businessman, a planner, a scientist, a governor, and a Christian,” Jimmy Carter said while introducing himself to national political reporters when he announced his campaign to be the 39th president of the United States in December 1974.

Los Angeles Times

Doyle McManus: Jimmy Carter's presidency looks better now than in 1980. Is there a lesson for Joe Biden?

History isn't kind to one-term presidents, at least in the short run.

Tribune News Service

Jimmy Carter’s Maranatha church ponders future as membership shrinks

PLAINS, Ga. — In many regards, Sunday was a pretty good day for Maranatha Baptist Church.

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It was WWII. And a Plains teen girl borrowed Jimmy Carter’s clothes

PLAINS, Ga. — Allene Haugabook remembers wearing Jimmy Carter’s pants.

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