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Roselyn Davids and David Sims struck up an unlikely correspondence that helped in its own way to change racial attitudes.

The joint family system, he says, was the backbone of society but it is portrayed on TV as a cesspool of negativity with ...

"It became more of a friendship than just writing back and forth," said fifth grader Trinity Danzy of her bond with her high school pen pal.

From sea-themed reading challenges to intergenerational pen pals, Saline schools, seniors, and the library are making ...

Do you miss the scrawl in the age of the scroll? Lets bring back the excitement that handwritten letters carried ...

When 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7 in South Carolina for the murder of his then-girlfriend's parents, ...

For United Methodist minister Hillary Taylor, there's a reward in introducing outsiders to someone who is kind and ...

In a new book Rachel Syme extols the simple pleasure of connecting with friends and strangers through the mail ...

Drake & Josh costars Drake Bell and Josh Peck reunited for the first time since Drake shared his story of sexual assault in ...

Roberta MacKenzie, of Gagetown, N.B., and Pat Cunningham of Perth, Scotland, started sending letters to each other in the ...

Trump’s people have figured out that attention spans in the modern world are right up there with gnats. Who reads any more?