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MTN Ghana has been recognized for its consistency in employing best project management standards and practices at the 4th Project Management Awards Ghana held in Accra a few days to the festive season. MTN Ghana received six awards, the highest number at the event. This showing by MTN Ghana is…

Meet the Forward 125: American Jews who made headlines and history in each of the 125 years since the Forward was launched in 1897.

Glenn and Carl Nordstrom became only the second father-son duo enshrined in the Bethel Park High School Hall of Fame when they were inducted during a ceremony held Dec. 9.

The award-winning cartoonist spoke with Newsweek about his books being banned in schools across the country and how that has impacted his art.

Tess Gunty and Imani Perry were the big winners at the 73rd National Book Awards, taking home honors in fiction and nonfiction, respectively, as the prestigious literary prizes were announced

The 2022 National Book Awards fundraising gala was a boisterous and profound coming-back-together after two years of digital editions.

Sabaa Tahir received this years Young Peoples Literature prize for her YA novel All My Rage; during her tearful acceptance speech, Tahir noted, I am the first Muslim and Pakistani American woman to win this award.”

Imani Perry won the National Book Award for nonfiction on Wednesday for “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul

In “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation,” Imani Perry travels to the American South, where she is from, to examine race, culture, politics and identity. The awards night was one of celebration, but concerns about a wave of book challenges and bans across the country hung over the festivities.

On Wednesday, Gunty and Perry won awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively, while honorees Art Spiegelman and Tracie D. Hall forcefully defended free speech.