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According to the group PEN America, more than 30 states have banned books by Black authors, including classics such as The Color Purple and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. The same group reports that “books about race, racism or that feature characters of color” make up 30% of the titles that are being banned. Banning a book does not make it illegal to own, but it creates

Black History Month presents the best opportunity to get more familiar with Black literature. Everything from post-apocalyptic fiction to autobiographies to

The program aims to distribute 1,500 fiction and nonfiction books in the face of continued book bans across the country.

The books included works by Black authors and stories of Black history like “Beloved”

The nonprofit Visit Philadelphia, “the region’s official leisure tourism marketing agency,” has joined forces with Little Free Library to bring locals and tourists to the Little Free(dom) Library to celebrate Black History Month.

A study by Pittsburgh’s Gender Equity Commission in 2019 deemed the city as one of the worst places for a Black woman. It found that the city’s Black women make only 54 cents to every dollar that its white men do and that Black women are five times more likely

The author on being mesmerised by The Virgin Suicides, the life‑changing Toni Morrison – and the book that’s too devastating to reread

Entrepreneurship is a spirit; leadership is its soul while society is its body. Without the spirit, the body is dead! Possibilities are responsibilities.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – In recent years, book bans have affected public libraries, school systems and writers nationwide, including in Mississippi.  According to the American Library Association, more than 2,500 unique books were targeted for censorship nationwide in 2022. So far in 2023, that number is more than 1,900. The most targeted books nationally deal with race, reference […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader

See list of banned, restricted books in Florida schools