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Longtime anti-Semitism watchers say there's nothing new about the kind of derogatory comments about Jews that rapper formerly known as Kanye West, former President Donald Trump, various candidates far-right politicians and others have held…

Mid-December 2020, Robert Draper signed on to write a book on the Republican Party under donald trumpwho spent four crazy years in the White House but had just been beaten by Joe Biden."Trump hadn't conceded," says Draper, from Washington,…

Both Pike Oliver and Michael Stockstill spent years working at Irvine Co., developing what would become Irvine's planned community.“It was a phenomenal experience for both of us. We had different goals, but we worked a lot together,”…

Penn Museum on October 14, 2022. Credit: Rachel Zhang Penn Libraries has opened a new exhibit showcasing famed photographer…

By JEFF ROWE The Associated Press It turns out that American cemeteries are much more than custodians of our bodily remains until the organisms in the ground…

For more than four decades, Bettina Aptheker, Emeritus Professor Emeritus of UC Santa Cruz, has provided UCSC students with an unforgettable immersion in feminist history. Aptheker has developed a large and loyal following over the years.…

Books Author Jan Brogan tells the story of the 1976 murder of Boston native and Harvard football player Andrew Puopolo.…

The road to the Kentucky Derby always seems to go through Bob Baffert, but rarely after a race like this. But first there's the added issue that the Hall of Fame coach isn't eligible to run in the Derby.On Saturday at Santa Anita, Baffert…

© Fort Rohwer 1942 - Wikimedia CommonsFamous for playing Captain Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, George Takei is first and foremost an American of Japanese descent. If his roots brought him fame and fortune because they allowed him to push the…

The special technological relationship that proved decisive in ensuring Allied victory in World War II.…

Joe Bussard, who began collecting rare American jazz, blues, country and gospel recordings as a teenager and built one of the world's largest private collections of 78 rpm records, died September 26 at his home in Frederick, Maryland. He…

The latest novel by Keenan Norris, an assistant professor of creative writing at San Jose State University, "The Confession of Copeland Cane," won the 2022 Northern California Book Award for Fiction, an honor bestowed by the association…

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NEW YORK (Reuters)—Donald Asset and his adult children were sued on Wednesday for fraud by the New York state attorney general, who has been conducting a civil investigation into the former US president's business practices for more than…

Although Campbell doesn't explore it, far-right paranoia about pornography goes all the way back to the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." In Protocol No. 14 of this notorious, more than a century-old forgery, Jews are supposed to create…

AAs with the climate, in politics there is a lack of time. America's withdrawal from democracy cannot persist. Although Native Americans, Blacks, women, and many more of us have been excluded from the American Covenant of Equality and…

“The beauty of Smyrna was not the houses or the streets. The beauty of Smyrna was us, the Greeks, the Romans and the Smyrnae. The beauty of the Greeks was not the locations or the marbles. It was bravery (Leventia) that they had in…

After a fan vote, it was revealed that NXT North American Champion Carmelo Hayes' opponent for tonight's NXT One Year Anniversary would be Wes Lee, but then Hayes and Trick Williams attacked Lee before the match and…

Benghazi. It has become a political Rorschach test for the country. The…

On Saturday, you'll be able to see some of your favorite authors and illustrators in person at the National Book Festival, for the first time since covid-19 forced the event to go virtual two years ago.Kwame Alexander, Mac Barnett, Sabaa…

Late on November 3, 2020, Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden. At that time, the American flagship of Rupert Murdoch overturned Donald Trump's bid for re-election. Chris Stirewalt, a Fox News editor for a decade, was part of the team…

According to the American Booksellers Association, at worst, about one bookstore was closing every week in 2020. ROCK HILL, SC — Some local bookstores are slowly recovering from the pandemic. According to Association…

Comment this storyCommentSummer Boismier only had one day of the school year before a parent complained and administrators came to her high school classroom to investigate. Days later, she resigned in protest of a new Oklahoma law that…

Comment this storyCommentEvery successful protagonist needs an injury or flaw to overcome. This is essential for telling stories - and gaining a reader's empathy.The loophole that hobbled Sen. Tim Scott (RS.C.) may surprise you. Until he…

Books can be magical. They can take you to distant places, to the past, to fantasy lands or even to the future. They can teach you something about yourself or the world, and one thing that can make books even more powerful is if you can…

Placeholder while loading article actionsA confession: A few pages from historian Elisabeth Griffith's book, I felt the weariness of a lifelong feminist. Who needs to read this encyclopedic account of the past 100 years of women's struggle…

Placeholder while loading article actionsJanice Bluestein Longone, a former bookseller who amassed thousands of cookbooks and other relics of American cuisine into a collection that helped give food a place at the table of history, died on…

by Lauren Daley | Normal hoursMy BookLoving friends, we have a month until Labor Day, and that means it's time for all the beach reading your beach bags can hold.It's time for our next episode of #FiveBooksForYourBeachBag. Load them up,…

DEAR ABBY: I have worked for the same company for 20 years. For the past eight years,…

A newly launched Russian spy satellite could be tasked with tracking down one of its American counterparts.The Russian satellite, known as Cosmos 2558 (opens in a new tab)would have been an "inspector's" craft even before it took off on…

The last resortby Sarah Stodola (Ecco). Delving into the histories of more than twenty seaside towns from the Jersey coast to Indonesia, this chronicle of corrosive tourism describes a pattern of overdevelopment which, in our current…

Eli N. Evans, an author and memoirist who explored through the lens of his family the history of the Jews of the American South - a population called the Dixie Diaspora - died July 26 in a New York hospital. He was 85 years old.The cause…

Comment this storyCommentEarly in the pandemic, teachers and librarians pleaded with a major nonprofit to make it easier for children at home to access books in its digital library.The organization, called the Internet Archive, agreed.…

Comment this storyCommentIt begins, fittingly, with a song about freedom. And Frederick Douglass singing it.Yes, this Frederick Douglass, the polymath abolitionist, writer and political thinker, who escaped slavery and became one of the…

In 2019, Chris Dennis, affectionately known as "Hollywood Superman", passed away after more than two decades of bringing joy to fans, and the documentary's first short film, The dual screens tomorrow. The LA Shorts Festival takes place…

TheWrap examines third-party data for 'The Mandalorian', 'The Book of Boba Fett' and 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' to determine which show rules the franchise's small-screen universe Nielsen Nielsen Streaming Audience top 10 lists counts for the…

Comment this storyCommentTwo landmark Supreme Court decisions in June hinged on history — one on abortion and the other on gun rights. The court's conservative majority applied a nostalgic view of the past to make it harder to limit the…

49 photos that show America is a dystopian nightmare 1. Let's start with a photo that basically sums up what America looks like right now. 2. There is also, of course, the gun…

JACKSONVILLE, Florida. – Two years ago, when Vanessa Nicolle was in the Navy, she started the online bookstore Woman Fire Books and eventually gained a small following on Instagram.Her passion project was put on hold when she was deployed…

BOYLE COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) – A country music artist from central Kentucky has released a new children's book that he hopes will teach children to trust and support law enforcement.Eddie Montgomery, of Montgomery Gentry, co-author of "Police…

The trustee of a literary estate has a difficult job. Get too free with a dead writer's copyright and you might end up with Arthur Rimbaud novelty items; act too quickly to burn the materials, because Emily Dickinson's sister and…

In the pre-internet era, in the era when the caterpillar of a dial-up modem was still just an incredibly irritating dream, books were the place to go when we wanted to explore provocative material. Like lists. (What did you think I meant?)…

Placeholder while loading article actionsRepublican U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance of Ohio is in the news with a recent discovery 2021 interview where he called for a total ban on pornography and also blamed contraception, abortion and…

Determined to break into film, he went to Hollywood, where he wrote a screenplay called "Salka Valka" or "A Woman in Trousers", with Greta Garbo in the lead for the title role. The film had a good chance of being produced by MGM, until…

Placeholder while loading article actionsIsabella Courchesne was about to enjoy an Italian submarine at New York's LaGuardia Airport when she received an alert familiar to many July 4 travelers: her flight had been delayed.Courchesne was…

LONDON, June 30 (Reuters) - Brandon Nakashima extended America's charge at Wimbledon this year when he ousted last year's semi-finalist Denis Shapovalov with a 6-2 4-6 6-1 7-6 victory (6) in the second round Thursday.Nakashima became the…

Colchester - First coach Andreas Bisbikos has asked the city's public library to remove a book about American entertainer and drag queen RuPaul, claiming it contained a sexually provocative image.According to Colchester Library!-->…

A discussion of Khabaar, a culinary memoir and personal narrative that weaves South Asian food's global journeys through immigration, migration and engagement, will be held virtually with author Madhushree Ghosh at 2 p.m. on the 30th June.…

Somehow we're halfway through 2022, which has resulted in a series of lists of the best books of 2022 so far, including Barnes & Nobles and Squire.Far be it from me to let anyone else have a head start on what books we should be talking…

The Scopes lawsuit on the evolution of teaching in schools has made headlines in the United States. (Image: Lib. of Congress)American society is changing. Or does it? Nearly 100 years after Scopes' "trial of the monkeys" pitted…

I Prevail has just booked a series of North American tour dates in 2022, consisting of two legs, with support from Pierce the Veil, Fit for a King and more.The first trek will begin September 9 in Asbury Park, NJ through October 9 in…

Placeholder while loading article actionsDom Phillips, a Brazil-based British journalist who had written for the Washington Post, the Guardian and other news outlets and was a leading columnist of the devastating environmental effects of…

MORGANTOWN, WV — Fifth-year senior right-handed pitcher Trey Braithwaite of the West Virginia University baseball team has been named a third-team All-America by the National College Baseball…

Carolista Baum is known to have found herself in front of a bulldozer that had to level the high sand dune of Jockeys Ridge and replace it with a condominium project. Photo: Outer Banks History Center. Reprinted from the Ocracoke…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! "Fox & Friends Weekend" co-host Pete Hegseth details the "destruction" of government education and how the left has weaponized the classroom as a way to control the political sphere in his…

After finishing fifth and second in the last two NTT INDYCAR SERIES races, Alexander Rossi appears to be back in championship form with Andretti Autosport. The driver of the #27 NAPA AUTO PARTS/AutoNation Honda…

BOSTON, MA, June 09, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Jevon White's book chronicles his trip to Ethiopia and his chance encounter with the guardian monk of the Ark of the Covenant, who became a mentor and father figure teaching him, among other…

Ms. Marvel can walk through the air and fire giant energy "fists". She battles bad guys in a costume fashioned from a blue burkini accented with a gold lightning bolt.But for the girls at Dr. Ronald McNair University High School in Jersey…

For the editor:Regarding “America May Be Broken Beyond Repair,” by Michelle Goldberg (column, May 28):Ms. Goldberg argues that America is irreparable and that a good portion of the population is ready for another insurrection, regardless of…

Samella Lewis, a black artist and art historian who did more than expose the racial blinders of the white art establishment, in part by founding a museum dedicated to promoting black arts, died May 27 in Torrance, California, near Los…

Placeholder while loading article actionsChester E. Finn Jr., known as Checker, is 77. His first contact with the national assessment of educational progress, known as our nation's report card, was in 1969. It was then that he received a…

History links Champagne, Ill. – Daniel Rodrigues and Connor ThompsonThe historic run in the…

No. 2 Riverton and No. 7 Pleasant Grove met at Larry H. Miller Field Wednesday afternoon in the first game of two with a 6A State Baseball Championship Series berth on the line. The Silverwolves beat…

Placeholder while loading article actionsThere are a fascinating scene from the 1943 film “Stormy Weather” which, however brief, sums up the virtuoso brilliance of dancer John W. Bubbles. According to the penetrating and revealing new…

Fearing illness from a foreign country, public health officials clamped down on travel and trade, imposing lengthy quarantines. These measures have curbed tourism, raised the price of goods and slowed their distribution. The…

May 16, 2022Nikole Hannah Jones was a 16-year-old high school student when the seed was planted for what would lead to her becoming the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the Project 1619–The New York Times magazineThe award-winning…

More censorship on the horizon, but rooted in politics A new district-wide policy for library book selection was officially released on Tuesday, April 10. The policy would allow the school board to decide which books…

A Chicago teenager uses her voice and writes it down to share and celebrate her Chinese-American heritage. Kara Eng, 16, says she is posting her story not only to raise awareness but also to inspire others. Eng grew up…

The recent release "ON THE PATH WITH PRESTON SHANK; A Great American Novelette" by Covenant Books author Garland B. Johnson is the gripping story of a man whose beloved routine has gone off the rails, raising existential questions.…

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Native American student's work features in Lady Gaga's anthology of short stories about kindness, compassion and community Back in high school, Hana Manga, a Native American student living in Washington, DC, began working with Born This…

Placeholder while loading article actionsFor young women in the 1960s, taking flight and becoming a flight attendant was a bold move. Airlines have bragged about the number of rejected applicants who did not meet strict beauty and weight…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, Associated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republicans on Wednesday proposed legislation that would pay more attention to books placed in public school libraries, moments after the bill's sponsor said any…

Placeholder while loading article actionsAs far as we know, nor a new addition to a beloved series about famous Americans called "Who is Barack Obama?" nor "Muffin Wars," a book about a child detective, has harmed any child.Bullets,…

Jhe great abuses of power by the Richard Nixon administration, collectively remembered as Watergate, had one huge upside: they inspired a series of laws that greatly strengthened American democracy.This new book from the Brookings…

When Louise Paulsen was a child in Denmark, her mother joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A working single mother, Paulsen's mother didn't quite fit the mold of womanhood as presented in the US-led church, but she was…

FAYETTEVILLE- Anthony Black, a five-star guard and McDonald's All-American, has become the sixth high school signee to solidify Arkansas' best recruiting class in program history, the Razorback head coach announced today. , Eric…

Editor's Note: Opinions expressed by Elissa Malespina and Martha Hickson, who both spoke to NJ Advance Media for this article, are their own. They were not speaking on behalf of their respective school districts or as educators.There is a…