Authors
2024 is well underway and so are the latest book releases. Among the hot reads of the year are breathtaking works by some of our favorite Black authors. Whether you like classics, fantasies, thrillers, or coming-of-age stories, there’s a book for everyone here. This year, we’re seeing releases from bestselling and acclaimed authors you won’t […]
Parents were raising eyebrows after they were asked by a Miami-Dade school to consent to having their children participate in a book reading by an African American author. The permission slip from Coral Way K-8 in Miami was intended to comply with the Parental Rights in Education Law, but parents and
Related video: Gov. DeSantis signs ‘Stop WOKE Act’ into law TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Parents of students at a Miami-Dade school had some questions when their children came home with permission slips asking consent to participate in a reading of an African American author’s book on Tuesday, according to NBC affiliate WTVJ. The permission slip,
A controversial “parental rights” law in Florida is facing renewed scrutiny after a rule about parental permission slips sparked confusion at a Miami elementary school when it asked parents to sign a slip allowing their children to hear a guest speaker read a book “written by an African-American.” Charles Walter, a parent . . .
Campus & community From young adult fiction about an internal organization of spies to a story of nature’s toxins, the subjects of this year’s books are wide-ranging, a reflection of the authors on our dynamic and diverse campus. By Anne Brice Source link
Howard University’s annual International Black Writers Festival hosted African-American authors who have faced bans on their books about the history of Black America and racism to speak about the opposition to their writings. Authors Mikki Kendall and Ibram X. Kendi joined Howard professors Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates to discuss why books that tell the […]
A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed OpenAI logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Sept 20 (Reuters) – A trade group . . .
Flannery O’Connor, the gothic short story writer born in Savannah, Georgia, was, in her own words, “an integrationist by principle and a segregationist by taste.” Born in 1925 and now regarded as one of her generation’s greatest and most pointed authors, she used the N-word freely in her correspondence. According to an article in The […]
Pauline Hopkins’ “Of One Blood,” first published in 1903 as a serial in Colored American Magazine, reappears now as a paperback, with highly stylized cover art, in Joshua Glenn’s admirable “Radium Age” series devoted to early-20th-century science fiction and fantasy. Previous “Radium Age” titles, all published by MIT Press, include J.D. Beresford’s “A World of […]
Pauline Hopkins’s “Of One Blood,” first published in 1903 as a serial in Colored American Magazine, reappears now as a paperback, with highly stylized cover art, in Joshua Glenn’s admirable “Radium Age” series devoted to early-20th-century science fiction and fantasy. Previous “Radium Age” titles, all published by MIT Press, include J.D. Beresford’s “A World of […]