Black authors teach middle-schoolers power of words — ‘A storyteller has the ability to create multiple universes’
Middle-schoolers at Gary Comer College Prep spent Friday joining activities focusing on literacy and storytelling with educators that look like them.
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‘Reading Railroad’ initiative aims to ignite love for reading among Black boys
A Dayton Metro Library initiative that seeks to support Black boys and men through brotherhood and books will see new programs in the coming months. The Reading Railroad initiative was soft ...
Seattle Public Schools is shifting its student achievement goals
Seattle Public Schools has proposed two main goals that will span the next five years, as well as "guardrails" for the ...
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RaMell Ross Seeks "a Sort of Realism" in 'Nickel Boys' and Its POV Perspective of the South
After reading Matthews's compelling book ... telling the story of two young African-American boys sent to the fictional Nickel Academy by only granting audiences fragments of an image to mimic ...
My Son's Birth Was Nearly Perfect, But Days Later I Almost Died. These Are The Symptoms You Should Never Ignore.
"I picked up my phone 10 minutes later to two missed calls and a voicemail from my OBGYN telling me to go to the hospital ...
Book Review: Amor Towles’s Excellent ‘Table For Two’
All the spectacular 19 th century Russian culture came to mind while reading Amor Towles’s newest book, Table for Two. This ...
Columbus Dispatch10d
James Jackson, Columbus' first Black police chief, remembered as trailblazer, family man
"He was greatly admired by the Black recruits," Pettus said. "And after reading about him, boy, I was inspired and filled with admiration for him." Pettus met Jackson when a call meant for the ...
John Minihan: Many of my most iconic photographs have a religious connection – even Lady Diana Spencer
My introduction to art happened in my hometown of Athy, Co Kildare. It was an age of belief; religion dominated everyday ...
The Boston Globe23d
Eastern Mass. boys’ hockey: Globe Players of the Week for Dec. 26-Jan. 1
As the boys’ hockey season hits 2025 ... the senior delivered a memorable hat trick as the Red & Black upended Middlesex League Liberty foe Reading, 4-2. McCarthy followed up his colossal ...
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‘Oceans Are the Real Continents’ Review: A Lush and Lyrical Vision of Contemporary Cuba in Black and White
There is a ravishing kind of beauty in Tommaso Santambrogio’s lyrical triptych of contemporary Cuban life, “Oceans Are the ...
West Virginia MetroNews3d
Character witnesses called in Sissonville child abuse case
UPDATE 1/22/2025 7:30 p.m. –On day six in the trial of a Sissonville couple charged with child abuse, neglect and forced ...
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Matty Healy Responds to Rumors His Next Album Is About Taylor Swift Romance
Matty Healy responded to rumors The 1975’s next album will be about his short-lived romance with Taylor Swift following her breakup with Joe Alwyn in 2023.