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How one book influencer championing Black authors is changing publishing

Milwaukee-based book influencer Cree Myles curates an account for Penguin Random House dedicated to celebrating Black writers.

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‘Unparalleled in intensity’ – 1,500 book bans in US school districts.

Past nine months have seen censorship effort ‘unparalleled in its intensity’, with books on race and LGBTQ issues singled out

The Guardian - US

An emerging opera singer faces her past in new novel by Dallas author Rosalyn Story

DALLAS — Rosalyn Story is a renaissance woman. In addition to performing in the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for over 30 years, she has worked as a freelance journalist and has written several books.

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Jane Austen replaced on literature course by American author Toni Morrison to 'decolonise' curriculum

American Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winner author takes her place

Wales Online

Commentary: How Toni Morrison’s use of the prefix ‘re-’ captures our complicated racial history

On March 10, as part of a wave of similar moves by states across the country, the Florida legislature passed what supporters are calling the “Stop WOKE Act,” a bill limiting what workplaces and schools can teach about race and identity, with special emphasis on discussions that could cause others…

Chicago Tribune

Poet Sonia Sanchez to receive Edwin MacDowell Medal

The poet, activist and educator Sonia Sanchez is this year’s winner of the Edward MacDowell Medal, a lifetime achievement honor started in 1960 and previously given to Robert Frost, Toni Morrison and Stephen Sondheim among others

The Independent UK

Toni Morrison novel The Bluest Eye off banned list in St Louis schools

Nobel laureate’s classic debut was removed from libraries but backlash and lawsuits prompted vote to restore

The Guardian - US

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An elegant, timely test for readers from Toni Morrison

"Recitatif: A Story" by Toni Morrison, with an introduction by Zadie Smith; Alfred A. Knopf (40 pages, $16)

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Tony Messenger: Banning Toni Morrison book only proves her point about the discomfort of language

Every election cycle, it seems, there is a new way to refer to a group of voters who seem to have all the juice. These are the voters whom elected officials are targeting to put them over the top in close races.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

55 Famous Women in History Who Changed the World

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