“What has made all of this distance learning work, is how responsive academic publishers and database companies to the needs of so many of us trying to work with our students and to keep the learning happening. I’ve had four different student research requests this morning and, for the most part, I’ve been able to

I wrote An African American and Latinx History of the United States because I believe that history has an indispensable role to play at a time when many of our leading politicians are again invoking anti-Latinx and anti-Black hatred in order to garner votes. I was born in 1964. I grew up in the 1970s, a

John Warner has more than two decades of experience teaching writing, from composition, fiction, and narrative nonfiction to technical and humor writing. But when he sat down to turn his course into his book The Writer’s Practice, he was met with the same challenge teachers find themselves faced with in the wake of the COVID-19

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut story collection Sabrina & Corina is now available in paperback wherever books are sold. Spotlighting Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in and around the author’s native Denver, Colorado, these short stories take stock of both the challenges these women face—from misogyny to gentrification—and their joy, fiercely claimed

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“As a high school English teacher and the father two elementary-aged daughters, the biggest challenge for me right now is trying to keep up with students while simultaneously trying to keep up with my own children. The days are stressful, but my wife (also a teacher) and I do a good job alternating between homeschooling

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The American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter announced their 2020 literary award winners and honorees at its annual meeting in January. Click here to find which Penguin Random House titles appropriate for Middle School and High School students were among the winners.

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The film adaptation of Bryan Stevenson’s book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption is now streaming, available to rent or purchase through digital outlets such as Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Google Play. In February, the acclaimed film won six NAACP Image Awards, including Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Actor in a Motion

Dear Reader, This story is fiction. But it also tells the truth. All stories start with a seed and for me that seed was planted years ago when I first crossed paths with Lord Byron’s epic poem, The Giaour, along with his deeply ingrained Orientalism and sexism. In college, I took a class that centered around