At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

When we retreat from reasoned, evidence-based scholarship on important subjects like science or history, the online fever ...

Each American Girl character had a series of books, and corresponding dolls, that explored her story in a particular time throughout history. The company started in 1986, and by the early 1990s ...

They say of the most commonly banned books in the 2023-2024 school year, 44% featured people and characters of color and 39% featured LGBTQ+ people and characters.

As is the case for institutions treating the disease, a majority of the sickle cell patients at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital are African American. The hospital recognized the ...

To their surprise, this Santa did not look like the ones in holiday movies or books — instead, he was a thin African American man. "This was just totally out of the realm for us. We just couldn ...

He is the nephew of journalist Eleanora E. Tate, one of the first African American reporters for the Des Moines Register. Tate spoke at the Forest Avenue Library in Des Moines on Dec. 12.

The study found that 10% of books featured African/African American characters; 7% featured Asian Pacific Islander/Asian Pacific American characters; 5% featured Latinx characters; and just 1% ...

Since its creation, the African American Read-In has reached more than 6 million participants worldwide, engaging communities to read together and celebrate African American books and authors.

Jeffrey Wright stars in 'American Fiction' [review], as a professor who writes a novel about Black life that's dumb — and guaranteed to be a hit.

Promising first-time director Cord Jefferson uses a 22-year-old book to poke fun at how Hollywood and others attempt to commercialize the African American experience. If that sounds like the setup ...