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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///////////////Open Book Event: Georgia Hunter
An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War,…
#FridayReads: The Lonely Hearts Hotel
With echoes of The Night Circus, a spellbinding story about two gifted orphans–in love with each other since they can remember–whose childhood talents allow them to…
Congratulations to the 2017 Carnegie Medal Winners
The American Library Association selected The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead as the winner of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and Evicted by…
Books on Film: The Lost City of Z
Based on the book of the same name by New Yorker writer David Grann, The Lost City of Z tells the story of Percy Fawcett who…
What People Really Mean When They Say, “Yes, I Read That Book”
No, I haven’t read that book, but here are nine reasons why I'm never going to admit that to you. BY JONATHAN RUSSELL CLARK “Yes,…