Capping off a day of energizing programming, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate and anti-censorship activist Laurie Halse Anderson delivered a powerful keynote, urging the children's book ...

Part of the Iowa's Book Ban Battle project. An acclaimed author whose book was pulled from an Iowa school district's shelves over its sexual content believes its critics are missing the point. Laurie ...

This Banned Book Week, theGrio is spotlighting page-turners that have been challenged and/or banned in libraries across the U.S. Every year, Banned Books Week shines a light on the stories some people ...

Fewer book challenges have been filed in Iowa schools since Senate File 496 passed, despite the law making it easier for parents to remove books. Challenges have targeted books with LGBTQ+ themes, ...

Paul Thomas Anderson is back. After a four-year break, his latest mind-blowing movie, One Battle After Another, hit the theatrical circuit and immediately made a huge splash. Although not proving ...

RIGHT NOW. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M MIYA PAYTON AN ANDERSON. OFFICIALS SAY TWO PEOPLE ARE DEAD AFTER A SHOOTING. IT HAPPENED AROUND 315 THIS MORNING NEAR THE 200 BLOCK OF WEST FRANKLIN STREET.

And at around the 21:20 mark, we have to give Herzog a ton of credit for throwing himself on his creative word by admitting that he tried to stop Parker & Stone from killing Kenny every week. That ...

Five men were shot, and two died in an early morning shooting on October 12 at a nightclub in Anderson County. The Anderson County Coroner's Office is investigating the death. The victims have been ...

Humiliated in a gray jail sweater, handcuffs, and no makeup, Kristen Hogan was worlds away from her sprawling mansion. The disgraced mother-of-three was in court facing life in prison for an alleged ...

CNN star Anderson Cooper took a shot at newly indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday, saying her previous vow on the campaign trail to zero in on President Trump was “not a great ...

Education: Doctorate in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University, master’s degree in computer science at the University of California Berkeley, bachelor’s degree in computer science ...