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A large black and white tegu lizard spotted on the loose in California was safely captured by employees at a public park.
David Goldblatt photographed the societal warping that apartheid inflicted, drawn to “the quiet and commonplace where nothing ...
Libraries all over the world have poisonous books that contain materials such as copper, arsenic, mercury, and chrome.
Columnist Issac J. Bailey writes about how the legacy of the sister of one of the Emanuel 9 shot and killed 10 years ago in Charleston illustrates why the gunman didn’t win that night, and simply ...
D. Esperanza’s memoir from Tornillo detention, tells the journey of a Honduran teen seeking the American dream.
The Trump administration removed Carla Hayden from her post as Librarian of Congress just before the end of her 10-year term.
An old wedding photo found in a library book inspired a search to find the family. Here's how social media helped reunite the ...
The chef, campaigner and author was diagnosed with dyslexia this year and has neurodiverse children. Now he’s on a crusade to ...
In a rather kind and forgiving tone, it also offered eye-opening accounts of the lengths by which the state of Georgia had gone to impede such progress. It’s evidence of what stands to be lost in ...
Former CEO of Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library Carla Hayden spoke out about her termination from the Library of Congress.
Hayden’s firing comes as libraries and archives are under siege nationwide by the Trump administration and factions of the ...
Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to serve as Librarian of Congress, received an email announcing her dismissal. She talks about libraries as bastions of democracy, for which ...