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You can find the full Associated Press announcement here. The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, announced that it will award Rita Dove with the 2023 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL). Dove’s sweeping body of work features eleven books of poetry, including Museum, Grace Notes, Selected Poems, Mother Love, On . […]
A 36-year-old Mississippi-based magician and illusionist has been nominated to enter Nevada’s “black book”, which bans people for life from all state casinos. Shaun Joseph Benward was nominated by Michael Somps, Senior Deputy Attorney General in the Gaming Division of the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, to join the infamous List of Excluded Persons. In a presentation […]
CNN — Today marks 60 years since the March on Washington when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his pivotal “I Have a Dream” speech on the National Mall. Around 250,000 people rallied for jobs and freedom that day on August 28, 1963. Decades later, many children who attended the march are
In celebration of Green Book Global’s establishing “Black Travel Review Month,” the site is releasing tips and rankings of the best ways and places for Black people to voyage into the world. Founded in 2018, the platform was inspired by the historical “Negro Motorist Green Book” that helped guide Black people safely across the United […]
In 1995 Bill Watterson walked away from “the madness that had consumed him for practically his entire adulthood,” writes the American Conservative. Though everyone loved his Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, “I had virtually no life beyond the drawing board,” he said of the years leading up to the decision… So it came as some […]
In the weeks following George Floyd’s death in 2020, a U.S. Air Force officer—currently awaiting promotion to brigadier general—accused his fellow “white colonels” of being the “biggest barriers” to addressing “racial injustice” in the military and being “blind to institutional racism.” Col. Ben Jonsson’s 825-word commentary . . .
Books including “Nuestra America” were available at Freedom Library book giveaway sponsored by the NAACP and AFT at the BTU headquarters on Tuesday. (Photo by Grace Zokovitch/Boston Herald) Having handed out thousands books in the South, the NAACP and American Federation of Teachers “Freedom Library” traveled north to give out another 4,500 often-disputed books. “The […]
Cory Doctorow, author, digital rights advocate, and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for his next book, called The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation. “The book presents an array of policy solutions aimed at dismantling the monopolistic power of Big Tech, making the internet a more […]
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RIPE, by Sarah Rose Etter In Rachel Aviv’s “Strangers to Ourselves,” a woman describes mental health as “like your darkness is still there, but it’s almost like it’s next to you as opposed to your totality of being.” That darkness — which could be labeled depression, anxiety or any number of official but imperfect . […]