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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 . […]
The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire. The New York Times: Cecilia Rabess figured her debut novel, “Everything’s Fine,” would spark criticism: The story centers on a young Black woman working at Goldman Sachs who falls in love with a […]
Film and TV have always been a part of Tre’vell Anderson’s journey. The Black trans nonbinary entertainment journalist grew up watching Tyler Perry’s Madea movies and Jamie Foxx’s Wanda character on the sketch show In Living Color. They remember, even amid the onscreen stereotypes and caricatures of their youth, finding moments of validation in their […]
Brooklyn photographer Jon Henry’s photo book “Stranger Fruit” has been shortlisted for “Photography Book of the Year” by the British Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. Photo by Ximena Del Cerro. Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Brooklyn-based photographer Jon Henry has spent the last nine years […]
Things get more dispiriting in Seville, Spain, where von Bremzen learns that foods like Catalan sausage and Andalusian gazpacho were not regional specialties but dishes historically cooked by families across the country. It was La Sección Femenina, the women’s branch of Spain’s fascist movement, that assigned these recipes to regions, as part of its effort […]
A Charlotte, North Carolina, teacher is suing the charter school he used to work at after he claims he was fired after parents allegedly complained about him teaching a fictional book involving a racially profiled Black teen. Markayle Gray, a former English teacher at Charlotte Secondary School, claims in a civil lawsuit that was filed […]
The best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert said Monday that she had indefinitely delayed the publication of her upcoming book after she was criticized online for writing a novel set in Russia. The move comes as publishers and institutions struggle with how to handle Russian art and literature as the war in Ukraine rages on. The uproar […]