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Christopher Paul Curtis has received the 2024 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award was announced Jan. 22 during the Youth Media Awards at the American Library Association’s (ALA) LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience, held Jan. 19–22. 

The American Library Association (ALA) on January 22 announced the 2024 Youth Media Award winners — the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards – during the American Library Association’s LibLearnX conference in Baltimore. The complete press release containing all

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards encourage the artistic expression of the African American experience via literature and the graphic arts; promote an understanding and appreciation of the black culture and experience; and commemorate the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination in supporting the work of her husband, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for peace and world brotherhood.  

Self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet will open its book event season with LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience (LLX). The said event will run from January 27 to 30, 2023, at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA. <br/><br/>It will be our first time to physically exhibit at the LibLearnX, which will be held as an in-person event for the first time since its digital inception in 2022. One of the highlights that LibLearnX has to of...

CHICAGO—Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is pleased to announce that Karleen Delaurier-Lyle has been selected as a Core Emerging Leader (EL).

Arts Council postpones February Series to AprilNORTHAMPTON — The Northampton Arts Council has postponed its annual “Four Sundays in February” winter arts series until April due to the spike in COVID-19 cases.“Four Sundays in February” traditionally...

After years of discussion and planning, its finally here: the American Library Associations new winter event, LibLearnX, gets underway today, January 21, and is set to run through January 24.

Glen Ellyn pastor James Shannon was 7 years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. first came to Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was inspired by Kings activism and saw how "the best vehicle for change was through the church."

Kaepernick will talk with librarians about his first children’s book, illustrated by Eric Wilkerson, I Color Myself Different, which is scheduled for an April, 2022 publication from Scholastic Press and Kaepernick Publishing.