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Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War,” was selected as a 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner in history.
UVA is home to the nation’s most-cited legal scholar, a Spanish professor enters the Order of Don Quijote and more.
The second half features a workshop with teachers as we focus on the story of the 1939 Library Sit-In in Alexandria ... and get to know the American heroes who envisioned and fought for civil rights ...
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Marshalltown native Paul Boerger is an engineering manager with numerous patents. He is the author of the new book “The Alchemist’s Way. LOVELAND, CO — Marshalltown native ...
Local Civil rights groups protest, outside the Naval Academy’s Gate One, an executive order by President Donald Trump that removed 381 books from the academy. Pastor Stephen Tillett, a retired Lt.
Friends of the Lompoc Library System are holding a spring book sale from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, April 18, and Saturday April 19, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Lompoc Library's Grossman Gallery, 501 E.
The American Civil Liberties ... the sidelined books and materials are still under review for compliance with the executive orders. The books in question have been removed from library shelves ...
They have agreed to build a library of age-appropriate children’s books in the most likely needed languages and for the Family Help Clinic to distribute the materials to families recently ...
In an address at the 1953 Dartmouth College commencement, he urged the graduates, “Don’t join the book burners.” Instead, he told them, “Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read ...
A Flushing illustrator and undergraduate arts student, Sammi Wu, was named the winner of Queens Public Library’s inaugural Banned Books Library Card Design Contest on April 10. The competition ...
The legislation is part of a broader push by conservatives to restrict access to library books that they consider inappropriate for children, an effort that has alarmed many librarians and free ...
And the proprietor of Grandmother’s Library Hotel in India left school in fifth grade – and now is boosting literacy for countless children.As E.M. Forster famously wrote in “Howards End ...