According to a 2024 study of book bans by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, books by Black authors and writers of color are 4.5 times more likely to be banned than those by white ...

Books The Boston Public Library released its ‘Black Is…’ booklist for 2023. Here’s what’s on it. Library staff compiled a list of 75 titles for celebrating Black History Month, ranging ...

INDIANAPOLIS – In 1922, Black and white Hoosiers lived in the same city but didn’t share the same world. Access in every way was limited to Indianapolis’ Black residents, a realit… ...

The singer’s creative studio Saint Heron recently launched a free community library that aims to increase access to rare and out-of-print works by Black and brown authors.

Most of the targeted books are about Black and L.G.B.T.Q. people, according to the American Library Association. The country’s polarized politics has fueled the rise. By Elizabeth A. Harris and ...

As the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden oversees the national library of the United States, which contains a collection of approximately 164 million items. For Black History Month, she has two ...

Little Free(dom) Libraries will give away 1,500 banned books by Black authors throughout February in honor of Black History Month. The initiative is a joint effort from the Free Library of ...

Man accused of burning 100 library books on Jewish, African American, LGBTQ+ topics. Mary Walrath-Holdridge. ... "Our goal is to collect a thousand new books that lift up Black, ...

It was a banner day in the history of American libraries — and in Black history. On May 25, 1926, the New York Public Library announced that it had acquired the celebrated Afro-Latino ...