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From the daily newsletter: looking for sense and solace in Trump 2.0. Plus: the bureaucratic nightmare of being trans right ...
Growing up with a name that people constantly fumble, mispronounce, or mock can take a toll on your self-esteem.
Jay DeMoir likes to joke that he’s the “male version of Belle from ‘Beauty and the Beast.’” Like the Disney heroine, DeMoir identifies as a bookworm, finding more solace between pages than idle town ...
Author Varian Johnson and illustrator Reggie Brown to discuss their new picture book collaboration, 'Little Big Man,' Black ...
The Met Gala theme shines a spotlight on Black style and Dandyism—celebrating the power, symbolism and global influence of ...
George M. Johnson's novel All Boys Aren't Blue released five years ago. Since then, it has become the most banned book in the ...
In this interview, Cheryl Thompson, author of ‘Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, ...
The crime novel "Where They Last Saw Her" explores the theme of Native American women who are missing or murdered.
Songs My Mother Taught Me” is a new novel from southern Colorado author Helen Winslow Black that follows one woman’s journey ...
There’s a lot of learning that happens at the Charleston County Public Library and it extends beyond what’s inside books.
A bookstore in Boston's Nubian Square is the only Black-owned bookstore in the city and it's known for embracing literature and the community for almost 20 years. At Frugal Bookstore in Roxbury ...