Mar 30 2022: Publishers Weekly spoke with social justice icon and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick about his debut picture book, I Color Myself Different, and writing as an extension of his advocacy.
Kaepernick, at 34, presides over a multimedia platform ...
Mar 25 2022: Poet Reginald Dwayne Betts’s first-of-its kind library now sits in the National Building Museum. The signature Freedom Library created by the MacArthur fellow, poet and lawyer offers people for the first time a chance to see libraries just like it that are being ...
Mar 25 2022: By large majorities, American say they oppose recent efforts to remove books from schools and libraries, and say they trust librarians to make appropriate collection decisions. The news comes from a national poll commissioned by the American Library Association, ...
Mar 24 2022: Shelf Awareness provides a useful overview of the free speech and First Amendment debates currently roiling the USA:
In the last week, two pieces in the New York Times have explored or touched on the issue of free speech.
Last Friday, a Times editorial entitled "...
Mar 18 2022: The winners of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last night. The NBCC Awards include seven awards for books and three for reviewers. You can see all seven book winners on BookBrowse:
Mar 15 2022: Penguin Random House has created a Banned Books Resources Hub that includes tools, materials and information that can help people and organizations fighting book bans including resources for teachers, librarians, parents, students and authors/illustrators.
Mar 14 2022: Writers for Democratic Action is launching Book the Vote, with the aim of registering more voters, particularly in battleground states, before the November elections. The effort will take place in bookstores and libraries, where nonpartisan voter registration tables ...
Mar 11 2022: When a guest who was scheduled to read to second-graders over Zoom this month didn’t show up, Toby Price, the assistant principal at a Mississippi elementary school, improvised.
Price’s boss at Gary Road Elementary School suggested Price read to the students, so he ...
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