BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — I spent my earliest years as an educator searching for books that reflected my students’ experiences; I wanted to introduce them to books...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to the American Library Association, its Office for Intellectual Freedom reported that 273 books were affected by censorship attempts in 2020, many with content...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — El-Mekki is answering his own “nation building” call. In May, he announced that after 11 years as Shoemaker’s principal and 26 years of...
JULIE WATSON, Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dr. William Grier, a psychiatrist who co-authored the groundbreaking 1968 book, “Black Rage,” which offered the first psychological...
NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Award winner James McBride is returning to nonfiction for his next project. The author of “The Good Lord Bird” has...
LUQMAN ADENIYI, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Al Roker’s new book, “The Storm of the Century,” reads like a blockbuster movie script, but the “Today”...
By Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA NEW YORK – What is immediately essential for me about Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ lengthy epistle to...
By Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA NEW YORK (NNPA) – “Mine was a simple hunger,” John A. Williams said of his early desire to become...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The dominance of social media and our never-ending thirst for faster ways to communicate have relegated many of our people...
