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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American Housewife by Helen Ellis Meet the women of American Housewife. They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel.…
A Letter from Greg Mitchell, Author of THE TUNNELS
The Tunnels is a thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who…
Books on Film: American Pastoral
Philip Roth’s nationally bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, American Pastoral heads to the silver screen. The film releases on October 21st and stars Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly,…
Invisible Library Series Sweepstakes
Enter the Invisible Library Sweepstakes! “Cogman writes with a vivacity and wittiness that breathes new life into the genre…. Reminiscent of the works of Diana…
#FridayReads: Rogue Heroes
The incredible untold story of WWII’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented…