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First Black pro football player is subject of new biography | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWhy isn’t Charles Follis in the Pro Football Hall of Fame? One might think the first Black...
Author Alicia D. Williams to visit Ball State
The Star Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMUNCIE, Ind. — Ball State University is welcoming award-winning author Alicia D. Williams to campus as its second guest author for the University’s...
WooSox Foundation Writers Series to hit it out of Polar Park with award-winning authors
Gannett via AOL· 1 month agoWORCESTER — The Knights of the Keyboard, as Ted Williams once called writers, will hit it out of the...
Author of daring escape tale and Shirley Chisholm biographer at Provincetown Book festival
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIt’s 1848, and a young enslaved married couple, Ellen and William Craft, make an imaginative escape....
NewSouth enters new phase as a true community bookstore in Montgomery
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThough it’s been around for about 23 years in Montgomery, NewSouth Bookstore is only now starting to...
‘Underground Railroad in Ohio’ offers stirring tales | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMost people know that Ohio was pivotal in the operation of the Underground Railroad, possibly the...
‘Alchemy of a Blackbird’ is inventive historical novel | Book Talk
Gannett via AOL· 5 months agoSpanish surrealist Remedios Varo and her friendship with the eccentric artist Leonora Carrington are...
This celebrated historian has a long relationship with KC. She’ll return next month
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWhen Doris Kearns Goodwin heads to Unity Temple on the Plaza next month to promote her latest book,...
Florida Poly trustee resigns after casting losing vote on choice of next president
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe contentious vote on the next leader of Florida Polytechnic University has already produced fallout. Hours after the board of trustees voted 7-6 to hire G. Devin Stephenson as the school’ ...
Rosa Parks to 'Reading Rainbow': 4 things to look for at Milwaukee Film's Cultures & Communities...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Milwaukee Film began promoting the return of its Cultures & Communities Festival to in-person...