From sports and history to mystery and comics, this year featured books for everyone. Our annual roundup features even more ...

VOLUNTEER DAYS: Youths ages 14 to 18 can earn service-learning hours at the New Orleans Public Library’s teen volunteer days, ...

Former pharmacist and debut author Jane Yang’s new sweeping historical novel, The Lotus Shoes (Park Row Books, Jan. 2025), is ...

David Elmo Cooper, hailing from Brooklyn, New York, discovered his love of art, specifically comic books and graffiti, at a ...

A Staunton woman has evolved from a writer into an author. Kalela Williams, 45, published her first novel, “Tangleroot,” ...

The organization We Need Diverse Books has come a long way from its 2014 origins, when reaction to BookCon’s all-white, ...

Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Book bans in U.S. schools and libraries during the 2021-22 school year disproportionately targeted children’s books written by people of color – especially women of color – ...

Racism was not addressed in Jean-Marie Salem's family growing up. It wasn't until she found her birth family that she felt ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

With Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling the Senate, an increase in book bans is a serious threat.

Black women have been at the crux of American culture for nearly two centuries. Our resilience, resistance, intelligence, grace.