Tariq Trotter’s 2023 memoir about growing up in Philadelphia will be the focus of the Free Library’s all-city reading program.

Boyd is retired professor at Wayne State University and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan.

In anticipation of a new edition (11th) of the Intellectual Freedom Manual, the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC) is reviewing and updating ALA’s intellectual policies, including the ...

The Center for the Book, in collaboration with New Hampshire Humanities and University of New Hampshire, and through a grant from the Library of America, will host a ...

The Race Unity Circle of Olean will present a Black History Month Celebration of the life of Dr. Maya Angelou at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Olean Public ...

In 1848, the Boston Athenaeum acquired more than 300 volumes from the famed Virginian's collection of books. They nearly ...

The extensive collection of Didion’s personal and professional belongings will become available to anyone with a library card ...

The Library of Congress now separates books into 21 categories, using the alphabet to distinguish each category.

Anna Bishop graduated high school at 15, college by 19, and spent decades teaching. She lived and wrote about Black life and ...

The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two ... Diane Seuss has a strong case to be considered as the most influential American poet of the last 10 years. A former social worker, over six ...

The conference offers a forum for research and discussion of issues affecting the African American community ... at 6 p.m. Feb. 6 at the John C. Hodges Library on the University of Tennessee ...