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MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart shares stories from his new book Yet Here I Am about growing comfortable with his identity as a gay Black man and the i...

Historian Kevin Schultz discusses his new book Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History, a criticism of modern liberali...

More than 50 years after the death of the Man from Missouri, historian John Robert Greene reevaluates a major – and ultimately sca...

Mandy Chapman Semple was responsible for designing and co-managing the implementation of Houston’s nationally recognized efforts to address homelessne...

Writer and director David Wayne Reed revives Shelf Life, his popular show-and-tell storytelling series, for Big Read 2025. The event – focusing on som...

Jamel Brinkley discusses his 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award winner, Witness: Stories. The 10 stories, set in New York City, question what it means to be...

Rebekah Taussig discusses her book Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body. The author, who lost the use of her legs as a...

Journalist S.H. “SKIZ” Fernando tells the story of hip-hop legend Daniel Dumile Jr. – aka masked supervillain MF DOOM – in a new biography set against...

More than 20 million motorists a year travel Bruce R. Watkins Drive. But this vital corridor, completed in 2001, came at a high cost to East Side resi...

In Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery, editor and historian Sydney Norton presents a series...