Below are the essays of the first and second place winners in the Polk County Family Week annual essay contest. The essays are verbatim. This year's theme was "Why I Love My Family." ...

My immediate family became closer when we moved 4,000 miles away from home, but it's been harder maintaining connections with ...

Evans Ray, whose life-sentence was commuted by President Obama in August 2016, reflects on being a father and his advocacy since his release from jail.

Dr. Bernard Harris became the first Black man to do a space walk. His family watched nervously seeing him take off into space.

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A trip to Selma, Alabama to see the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the National Association of Black Journalists convention took a turn when her son fell ill.

NewsHour essayist Richard Rodriguez offers some thoughts about gay marriage.

My daughter recently had an appointment with her psychiatrist. Like normal, her doctor measured how tall she was and how much she weighed. This is standard procedure, but these measurements are ...

My two siblings and I are each 18 months apart from one another. From our days as newborns, my grandmother raised all three of us while my parents worked. We lived in a two-family house with my ...

Didion's most famous essay was about my mother's murder trial, set in California's broken dream. It turned out to be right.