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A Long Way to Find a Home is a children's book based on the childhood of George Edwin Taylor, who lived for a time in the La Crosse area and became the first African American to run for U.S ...

The Alex Awards are named after Edwards, who was called “Alex” by her friends. The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books ...

Brandy Norwood announces deeply personal memoir exploring her journey from teenage stardom to motherhood, set for release in ...

By Alida Becker Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. In “The Killing Fields ...

Snyder's film spotlights the librarians on the front line of the culture war waged by right-wingers in certain American states ... his notorious list of 850 books that libraries should remove ...

Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American ...

A retelling of Cinderella set in the rural south during World War II ...

John Hope Franklin, a native of Oklahoma, longtime professor and Professor Emeritus at Duke University as well as Fisk University and Howard University, and prolific scholar of African American ...

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For retired teachers and couple Charles and Queen Laureen Butler, the eighth annual “Know Thyself Book Fair and Author’s Forum” represents an ongoing endeavor to foster intergenerational bonds in D.C.