Most of us have only scratched the surface when it comes to understanding racism in America. These books about racism can help you gain further insight and become a true ally and anti-racist.

'The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are,' by The Roots cofounder Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, is ...

Five days a week, they hit the streets, running 13 different library shifts. Their clientele? People who are unhoused.

Tariq Trotter’s 2023 memoir about growing up in Philadelphia will be the focus of the Free Library’s all-city reading program.

Robin Kelley didn’t think she would sell many more copies of the children’s book she wrote and illustrated. The Chippewa Falls art teacher published “Ostriches Eat Sausages: An Alphabet Book” in 2021 ...

The book will be of particular interest, of course, to fans of the Grateful Dead, many of whom treasure any knowledge about ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

In 1925, the first issue of The New Yorker was published. In 1934, Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Cesar Augusto Sandino was killed by members of the country's national guard.

Stephen King’s work has been adapted so many times — sometimes by King himself — that it’s impossible to find a single ...

Rare book collector Rebecca Romney takes us behind the archives that led to "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," a new book about the women writers who shaped Austen.