From Judy Blume to Edward Said, these are the writers that superstar YA author S.K. Ali loved reading
Alex Haley was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the novel, Roots, which was based on his family's history of ...
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Librarians gain protections in some states as book bans soar
Karen Grant and fellow school librarians throughout New Jersey have heard an increasingly loud chorus of parents and ...
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The 2 states that banned the most books during the last school year
The report comes during Banned Books Week, which first began in 1982 to raise awareness about the importance of free and ...
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Jeff Holland: An area tour celebrating our own heroes for MLK Day
As the nation pauses to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr., I felt the need to commemorate some of our own ...
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From the Lowcountry to New York City: Daufuskie Island museum exhibit depicts bygone era
Alex Haley, the author of "Roots," wrote the foreword. A 25th anniversary edition was printed in 2009. Haley, in his introduction of Moutoussamy-Ashe's photography book, noted how the ...
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She hoped to learn more about her enslaved ancestors. A trip South revealed hard truths.
When she visited Spartanburg, a local librarian had pulled materials in advance, with books and computer ... in the way that author Alex Haley’s 1976 novel “Roots” sparked an interest ...
Writer Lee Hawkins connects abusive childhood in Maplewood to the Jim Crow South and slavery
Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an examination of where violence in Black homes originates and a plea to end ...
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Haley Baker
After leaving the news business in 2011, Haley took a short sabbatical from news to follow her husband's military career and focus on her family. Now they are back in Alabama to retire and put down ...