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/PRNewswire/ -- Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced the winners of its 2024 RFK Book and Journalism Awards during a virtual ceremony with remarks by...

Winners at the 2024 L.A. Times Book Prizes included Ed Park for fiction, Ivy Pochoda for mystery/thriller and the pro-Palestinian commencement speaker whose name has become a rallying cry for free speech.

Hip hop is celebrating its 50th year. I’m not celebrating. In fact, I’m mourning.

The L.A. Times Book Prizes honor 66 works in 13 categories celebrating exceptional writing from authors at all stages of their careers.

Last summer, the American Historical Association’s former president, James H. Sweet, issued an apology. Expressing regret for “the way I have alienated some of my Black colleagues and friends,” Sweet walked back a claim he had earlier made that characterized as “anachronistic” and essentia...

At least you won’t have to move.

Historian Blair LM Kelley traces the evolution of the Black working class through her own family roots.

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