Kids book on friendship a natural for Kansas City illustrator and buddy Taye Diggs Dan Kelly, The Kansas City Star
Jan. 11 Award-winning Kansas City illustrator Shane Evans says he has been friends forever with actor Taye Diggs. So it is appropriate that their most recent collaboration their fourth children s book is called My Friend!
When Evans and Diggs appeared on NBC s Today show Jan. 5 to promote My Friend!, which went on sale that day, Diggs said, It was all Shane s brain baby.
Evans told The Star that the kernel of the book s idea came from when the two friends, who had met in high school in Rochester, New York, attended Syracuse University in the early 1990s. They worked together on a project about what being Black meant to them.
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Former FBI Director James Comey said the Justice Department under President-elect Joe Biden’s attorney general should not open a criminal investigation into President Trump when he leaves office in a couple weeks.
Excerpts from the book,
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust, were released Wednesday morning, shortly before reports emerged that Merrick Garland, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, will be Biden s pick to lead the Justice Department when he takes office later this month.
Comey wrote that the next attorney general should not “pursue a criminal investigation of Donald Trump … no matter how compelling the roadmap left” by special counsel Robert Mueller or “how powerful the evidence strewn across his history of porn stars and financial fraud, according to the
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When author Christa Parravani, a professor at West Virginia University, found herself pregnant for the third time, she worried she was unable to provide for her family so she sought to end her pregnancy. Ultimately, she was unable to find the services she needed and had the baby.
Parravani recently wrote a book about her own experiences as she came to grips with the decision and struggled to get help. She also looked into the healthcare system when it comes to infants and children, along with mothers in states with restrictive reproductive rights.
Parravani spoke with Eric Douglas about the book.
CHICAGO – The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) , a division of the American Library Association (ALA), selected five books as finalists for the 2021William C. Morris Award , which honors the year’s best books written for young adults by a previously unpublished author. YALSA will name the 2021 award winner virtually at the Youth Media Awards on January 25, 2021, during the American Library Association’s virtual Midwinter Meeting . Registration is open now through January 15, 2021. The 2021 finalists are: “Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard,” written by Echo Brown published by Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Co. Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children s Publishing Group. 9781250309853.