Maya Angelou was an inspirational and unforgettable public figure who wore many hats in her storied lifetime. She was a poet, a memoirist, an activist, a playwright, a dancer, a singer, an actress, a mother, and so much more. Angelou is probably best known for her series of autobiographies that chronicle the story of her
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It continues to be true that school boards have become the new target of right-wing activists, itching for more “parental rights” over curriculum, education, and information access in public schools. Conservatives cheered in Wisconsin as several party-aligned members were ushered into school board seats across the Milwaukee suburbs. In Flagler County, Florida, every candidate for
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President Biden’s FY 2023 Budget request to Congress includes a request to increase funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a federal organization that provides funding to libraries and museums in the United States through state sponsoring programs. The request is for $276.8 million, an increase from what is usually less than
Jason Tharp is a picture book author who was brought in for a visit to an elementary school in Buckeye Valley School District in Ohio. Over the phone, though, the school principal told him not to read from his book It’s Okay To Be a Unicorn! after a parent complained. The book is about feeling
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In 2021, there were over 1,500 book bans in U.S. school districts, representing over 1,000 unique titles. The books targeted are primarily books by and about people of color (especially by Black authors), books with LGBTQ content, and any title that could be interpreted as promoting social justice. In response, Brooklyn Public Library, one of
In 2015, it was announced the Nimona by ND Stevenson would be adapted into a movie by Blue Sky. It was delayed multiple times, and the studio was acquired by Disney in 2019. Two years later, Disney shut down Blue Sky Studios and the project was cancelled after it was about 75% complete. Former Blue
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Kindle In Motion ebooks contain animated art and video features that can be turned on or off while reading. They can be read on any device, including Kindles. Most of the books offered are classics, but there are some recent titles included, too. Here’s an example of one of the covers in action: And what
While book banning and censorship attempts in the U.S. have been at an unprecedented high in the last two years, they’re also not new. In 2013, library science graduate student Jarrett Dapier filed a Freedom of Information Act request that made public the Chicago Public School district’s attempt to quietly remove Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The squeal that I released when I heard that Deanna Raybourn — who writes one of my favorite historical mysteries series (so funny + grump and sunshine pairing!) — was writing a crime book about assassins, could be heard on the moon. I was so excited that the day I was able to get my
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It’s National Library Week, and as is tradition, the American Library Association (ALA) highlighted the top ten books challenged in the U.S. over the last year. The list, which includes the reasons for those book challenges, shows what has been clear for over a decade: books with queer characters, characters of color, or book written
Ora Nadrich’s new book is titled Mindfulness & Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness. As the title would suggest, the book encapsulates a distinctly Eastern-influenced, Buddhist and meditative set of spiritual practices, presented by Nadrich in a refreshingly straightforward manner. ABOUT ORA NADRICH: https://www.oranadrich.com/ There’s never a sense she’s trying to
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Students in Williamson County, Tennessee, have experienced near non-stop changes to the books and resources available to them this school year. Thanks to Moms for Liberty’s relentless campaigns locally, books continue to be challenged and removed throughout the district. This week, the district took even more draconian censorship measures. In response to a couple of
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The Hugo Awards is the biggest science fiction award in the world of books, and it has been running since 1953. The winners are chosen by popular vote of members of the World Science Fiction Society, and they are announced at WorldCon. This year, the organization received 1,368 nominating ballots, which have been narrowed down
In September of 2000, two notebooks kept by Charles Darwin — one containing an iconic “tree of life” sketch — were removed from the Special Collections Strong Rooms in Cambridge University to be photographed. In January 2001, a routine check revealed that the notebooks had never returned to their proper place. They were assumed to
Charlotte Brontë is best known for writing Jane Eyre, but before that, she wrote poetry for her and her sisters’ toy soldiers in a remote English village. One of these poetry collections, written by the author when she was thirteen, has resurfaced after its last sighting in 1916. The miniature book is 15 pages long, dated December
The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom has released a list of the top 10 most challenged books of 2021. They tracked 729 challenges representing 1,597 books, but that is just the challenges that were either reported to the ALA or received significant media attention. They estimate about 90% of formal challenges go unreported
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The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom is one organization that keeps track of formal book challenges and bans across the country. They have announced that their final count for number of challenges in 2021 was 729 challenges representing 1,597 individual books. This is far from a complete picture: only some of the formal
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There are far more fantastic queer books being published every month than I can keep up with, and I am deeply grateful for that. In the last few years, we’ve especially seen a surge in books being put out by mainstream publishers that have queer women main characters, which is exciting. We’re also starting to
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