NEW YORK (AP) — Books on slavery, the justice system, poverty and gender identity are among this year’s finalists for J.

Educator and historian Carter G. Woodson was the founder of what is now the Association for the Study of African American ...

A rattling presence is what the award-winning writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is stirring in the literary world with the news of the release of her first novel in ten years titled 'Dream Count', a ...

Defense officials give schools around the world until February 18 to remove books that don’t align with Trump’s ideological views ...

Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...

VV Ganeshananthan, an American writer and journalist of Sri Lankan descent, who won the Women’s Prize for Fiction last year ...

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A review of content taught at the Department of Defense Education Activity schools has resulted in restrictions of lessons on ...

Valentine's Day is approaching quickly, and if you’re looking for something sweet or melancholic to celebrate the holiday, ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a book detailing the struggle that former enslaved people ...

Others have also banned books by Black authors that focus on race ... for Black students at Albert Einstein College of ...