The Center for Financial Empowerment, the nonprofit founded by SCE Credit Union, is currently holding a July “Children’s Diversity Book Drive” to replenish books in seven Little Free Libraries in City ...

Novelist Angela Flournoy recently said, "I think it's an undue burden for the writer of color that's just trying to get people to care about their book as much as other people's books, to then also be ...

In this 2018 photo provided by Children's Aid, Nina Crews, illustrator of "A Girl Like Me," reads to children at an early childhood education center. Crews said the work of independent publishers and ...

Guest post by Education Week library intern Rachel Edelstein. Last month, we wrote about the glaring diversity gap in the children’s publishing industry. What we didn’t write about were some of the ...

Shanna Miles describes herself as a book pusher. For at least one group young readers in the metro area she has become more of a leader on a journey to self-discovery than merely a bridge to good ...

MONTVALE — School board member Amaka Auer knows how important it is to have books and stories that represent many voices. Her second-grade daughter is reading "Marley Dias Gets it Done," authored by ...

When hundreds of books got hauled away in a dumpster from the library of the New College of Florida on Thursday, the tiny liberal arts college with a governing board dominated by appointees of ...

Fewer than 10% of the children’s books published in 2015 were about black people, according to a study by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) at the University of Wisconsin. And while the ...

Challenging the norms, one book at a time. For two years I spent my Fridays with an incredible young girl who I met through The Pyjama Foundation – an organisation that pairs children in foster care ...

The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21, according to a memo issued to ...