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The Autauga-Prattville Public Library’s future turned on a Feb. 8 meeting of its board of trustees. New board members appointed following a mass resignation late last year, most of whom were appointed by county commissioners, wasted little time in refashioning the library in their image — one that suited Clean Up Alabama, a group that […] The post What federal courts have said about local library book bans appeared first on Alabama Reflector.

A mother accused of murdering her three-year-old son admitted hitting him with a bamboo cane but said she was allowed to because the Bible told her “she should chastise her child”, a court heard.

Christina Robinson, 30, also allegedly immersed Dwelaniyah in scalding water and shook him violently

Christina Robinson claimed that her son had died while eating a cheese bap at her home in Durham

Concerned citizens have requested Dorchester school district 2 officials remove hundreds of books from library shelves, even though it violates policy.

LOS ALAMOS COUNTY NEWS Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, Santa Fe's 6th poet laureate, opens a window into history by portraying the preeminent Black novelist Richard Wright in a live presentation at Mesa Public Library. Richard Wright (1908-1960) pioneered an influential school of protest literature and became the first Black writer to pen a bestseller that overtly criticized racism and…

Richard Brody reviews the 1994 documentary “Freedom on My Mind,” directed by Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford, about the 1963 civil-rights campaign in Mississippi.

Harlem Renaissance - Visual Art, Creativity, Expression: Many Black painters and sculptors moved to Paris in the 1920s but returned to the United States during the Great Depression

Chief minister explains replacing Julie Edge as education minister

Modernism, in the fine arts, late 19th to mid-20th century, a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. It fostered a period of experimentation in literature, music, dance, visual art, and architecture. Learn more about the history of Modernism and its various manifestations.