Celebrating Black History, Black Excellence, and Black Joy Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the freedom of the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in Texas. The newly freed Black Americans observed Juneteenth as a celebration of freedom and its fulfillment. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Jubilee Day, is marked by celebrations, family gatherings, picnics, and readings of the Emancipation Proclamation as a measure of progress against freedom. As Juneteenth is an occasion for…
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Watch the trailer for the Netflix Original Series Girlboss, which will debut with 13 episodes on April 21. In the New York Times bestseller that…
Books on Film: THE DINNER
The internationally bestselling phenomenon by Herman Koch, now a major motion picture with an all-star cast. On a summer’s evening in Amsterdam, two couples meet…
Love Your Library Sweepstakes
This National Library Week, show your library some love and enter for your chance to win a literary prize pack for you and your library!…
#TrendingNow: Immigration Inspired Books
From the memoir of a man from Pakistan whose son lost his life fighting in the United States Army to a collection of short stories…
A Letter from James William Brown, Author of MY LAST LAMENT
James William Brown’s My Last Lament is a poignant and evocative novel of one Greek woman’s story of her own—and her nation’s—epic struggle in the aftermath…