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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///////////////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…
MLB 2017 Opening Day Special: Our New Baseball Books
The 2017 Major League Baseball season begins on Sunday, April 2. To help baseball fans get revved up for the coming season, several Penguin Random…
What to Read for April
Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Here are the top ten books selected by librarians from the April 2017 LibraryReads Top Ten List! Anything…
April is National Poetry Month
Each year the month of April is set aside as National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate poets and their craft—#npm17 We've compiled a list…
8 Great Questions with Brit Bennett
BY ABBE WRIGHT • 2 MONTHS AGO Brit Bennet’s lush and evocative debut novel The Mothers was one of our favorite books of 2016. Set…