The American Library Association has proclaimed Sept. 22-28 Banned Books Week to draw attention to the issue. In honor of the occasion, Random House imprint One World is hosting “Free Your Mind,” an ...

August, roughly a month and a half before his new book, The Message, was set to be published, and Ta-Nehisi Coates was in my ...

Despite apprehensions that the information might endanger his freedom, in 1845 Douglass published his autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave." Three years ...

Her lecture, inspired by the quote from Wendell Phillips in the 1845 introduction to Frederick Douglass’s first autobiography, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American ...

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This ...

Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn ...

On this Democracy Day, I want to highlight the VFW’s annual high school contest by sharing with you Indiana’s top three ...

Atlanta Vintage Books is known for its selection of gently used, vintage and collectible books. But each year when Banned Books Week rolls around, the team at the Brookhaven bookstore goes on a ...

By John Koblin and Benjamin Mullin A new documentary about Frederick Douglass debuts on HBO ... players compete for prize money. But the narrative of “The Sims Spark’d” emerges from how ...