Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa. He once called helping with Zimbabwe’s transition from white rule to independence “our greatest single success.” ...

Though he once held the most powerful position in the world, Jimmy Carter may be better remembered for his work after leaving office ...

By Celia W. Dugger Almost two decades ago, I reported on Jimmy Carter’s humanitarian quests to combat trachoma, a blinding disease that often torments women in rural Africa. Repeated bacterial ...

Rhode Island-based builder and designer Kenneth Young, 66, first began volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in the 1990s. After his first "Carter build" in 1995 in Watts, California, a neighborhood ...

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa. He once called helping with Zimbabwe's transition from white rule to independence "our greatest single success." ...

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa. He once called helping with Zimbabwe’s transition from white rule to independence “our greatest single ...

Our Country Ignored Africa,' Jimmy Carter Said. He Didn't NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa. He once called helping with ...

FILE - A girl holds a portrait of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in a market in Lagos, Nigeria, March 31, 1978, the day of his arrival for a state visit, the first to Africa by an American president.