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“The shoe has endured because it’s simple, it’s comfortable, it goes with everything, and hopefully means something to people when they wear it,” Stan Smith tells The Daily Beast.

The Holy Bible will stay in Broward School libraries, after surviving a challenge from an atheist blogger and activist who complained the book “is too sensitive or controversial” for public school students. The Superintendent’s Review Committee, created this year to comply with a state law allowing parents to challenge books, voted unanimously Wednesday to keep the book on district library ...

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“I felt I was living through those moments with every word I spoke,” the Oscar-winning actor says of her new memoir, “Finding Me.”

Glenn Hurst reflects on the limits of his own education and suggests reading and celebrating Black authors for Black History Month.