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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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How Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden built an enduring friendship

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

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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.

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Here are the AP’s latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EST. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan.

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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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Rosalynn Carter’s caregiver legacy in focus with Jimmy in home hospice

PLAINS, Ga. — At age 95, Rosalynn Carter has once again found herself on a caregiving team.

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Carter: Still a model for candidates asking 'Why not me?'

As 2024's campaign season begins, politicians are looking in the mirror and deciding whether they see an American president staring back

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In Jimmy Carter’s hometown, a train brings well-wishers

PLAINS, Ga. — Lisa Powell Humphries lives just a little more than an hour south of Jimmy Carter’s hometown of Plains, but she’d never been.

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Plains mayor and Jimmy Carter have talked plenty — but avoid politics

PLAINS, Ga. — The longtime mayor of Jimmy Carter’s hometown, a self-described conservative, doesn’t talk politics with the Democratic former president.

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