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Five fascinating reads about grief for Mental Health Awareness Month
Find insights for Mental Health Awareness Month from five grieving authors who chart intimate journeys through their shaken worlds.
Promoting Early Literacy Through DC Public Library's STAR Program
On April 27, the DC Public Library will host its annual STAR Fest, a free family celebration promoting early literacy development.
Passing
A historically and culturally significant part of the history of Black American experience, passing was the tactical measure used by some Blacks to evade US segregation. Mixed race African Americans with little to no visible African ancestry were able to pass as White in the US to gain economic and social status and to escape oppression and degradation that were inherent during the construction of race, Jim Crow discrimination and segregation in the US.
DC Public Library Foundation Partners with Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy
The Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy (IREL) is back for its 5th year and another beautiful summer of powerful learning. Join co-directors Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul and Tricia Ebarvia along with educators from across the country as we gather in Washington, D.C., at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library.
Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2023
Kick-off National Library Week with #RightToReadDay by checking out the 10 most challenged books of 2023.
It's the old, old story
We see it at the movies, hear it in songs, and read it in many books: retellings of stories that have been told since before writing.
National Library Week
How do you love your library? Tell us during National Library week on April 7 - 13, 2024.