Poet Threa Almontaser won the 2021 Maya Angelou Book Award for her collection The Wild Fo...

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...

Alexandra Brodsky is a civil rights lawyer, author, and founder of Know Your IX, a youth-led organization working to fight gender violence in schools....

In rescuing some 70 enslaved people from Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1850s, shepherding them north along the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubm...

Patricia Smith’s roots in poetry trace to a blues club in Chicago, where she took the stage “hoping that I had something to say that...

Two years before a partisan duel over charges of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the issue exploded – in actuality – in the wake of a c...

Writer and activist George M. Johnson joins Kansas City activist Justice Horn in discussing Johnson's 2020 memoir on...

Five days before the country immerses in Super Bowl LVI, renowned sports journalist John Feinstein examines the mixed legacy of racia...

Shelly Cline, historian and director of education at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, discusses...

Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast....