If anything, Trump was a Johnny-come-lately to the issue. The seeds of the conflict can be traced as far back to the moment the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed. The landmark bill outlawed all ...

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

Sometime in 1980 my comrade and political mentor Roosevelt “Rosie” Douglas visited North Korea. On his return he claimed he ...

BROWN COUNTY ART GUILD, 48 S. Van Buren St., Nashville. Guild artist exhibition and sale is all-new artwork and a refurbished ...

Latinos voted more for Donald Trump in the 2024 election than they did in 2020. Here are books to help understand why the ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal ...

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went ...

The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and ...

The 2025 winner is Carole Boston Weatherford. Her award-winning works include Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, which won ...

Readers kept the Jackson District Library busy in 2024, but some books were read or listened to more than others.