LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas non-profit continues to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Maya Angelou. The Celebrate! Maya Project is celebrating its 10th anniversary and its annual celebration of Dr.

The rumble of construction equipment stopped abruptly when workers hit something unexpected beneath the jungle floor. What started as routine groundwork for Mexico's ambitious Maya Train project near ...

In a ceremony held at Chetumal on Sept. 29, the outgoing President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, marked the completion of the Mayan Train project to build or upgrade 965.6 miles (1,554 ...

President López Obrador had previously assured that a portion of the Maya Train, designed to run on an elevated causeway, would avoid disrupting the caves and sinkhole lakes. Activists in Mexico have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico Mexico’s latest major endeavor, El Tren Maya, is officially partially running. Billed “the greatest ...

An intimate group of advisory board members and supporters of the Celebrate! Maya Project came together Oct. 9 for the organization's yearly FriendRaiser and Scholarship Drive, held at Little Rock's ...

In 2014, shortly after the death of Maya Angelou, Janis Kearney set out to find a way to honor her. "We just wanted to do something to celebrate her and her legacy, all the things that she has done, ...

Reporter Maxwell Radwin and videographer Caitlin Cooper set out to ride the Tren Maya from Cancún toward Palenque and back. On their journey, they looked for evidence of deforestation, the relocation ...

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The Celebrate! Maya Project will honor legendary writer, performer and artist Maya Angelou for her 98th birthday. This year’s theme is “Still We Rise.” The nonprofit organization will feature a free ...

More than just a train, the scale of the project is enormous. And its effects are already visible. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during the laying of the first stone of the Tren ...