The Belgian ruler Leopold II had elaborate plans to extract resources from Africa. Pachyderms played a part.

Friendships seem to get more complicated. Romantic feelings go beyond grade-school crushes. And ethical decisions as well as homework assignments get tougher. Books that deal with these new ...

Sometimes they lead to changing laws. Some movements are peaceful, others turn violent. These books tell stories of people's experiences of racism and of those who put their bodies on the line for the ...

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Officials in the Maryland school district that included the book – along with others with LGBTQ+ characters – into its reading program, say the story is no more about sex than are classic ...

LOS ANGELES, April 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest episode of the YouTube series and podcast Books That Changed My ... impact of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas on Hanks' life and worldview ...

Ms. Stack, a contributing Opinion writer, wrote from her home in Montgomery County, Md. On Tuesday the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments over whether public elementary schools violate ...

School library books could not depict sexual activity under a North Carolina bill approved by a state House of Representatives committee Tuesday. House Bill 636 would create committees and ...

Imani Jean, a fifth-grade Orangeburg County School District student and National Speech Champion, is releasing her debut book, “Imani’s Voice, Imani’s Victory: The Road to a National ...

Global identified recoverable uranium resources totalled 7.93mt as of 1 January 2023 ... The latest edition of the Red Book, published by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic ...

The American Library Association (ALA) released its annual list of most-challenged books on Monday, which includes new data that reveals the majority of censorship attempts in school and public ...

Last year, Washoe County received over 13 challenges for books in school libraries and 22 book challenges in public libraries. Most of the complainants were asking books to be removed from the ...