The works of George Orwell, Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood have found a new home inside two Ohio prisons. The Ohio Women’s Reformatory and Southeastern Correctional Institution are bringing in ...

East Side Freedom Library is hosting “a program explaining the history of “Watch Night,” a tradition that began on the last night of December, 1862, when many African Americans gathered in homes and ...

Having handed out thousands books in the South, the NAACP and American Federation of Teachers “Freedom Library” traveled north to give out another 4,500 often-disputed books. “The youth here ...

Standing in the National Building Museum, writer Reginald Dwayne Betts placed his hand on the curved walnut shelf filled with books. He picked up a few titles, one after the other, sharing a memory ...

When Reginald Dwayne Betts was 16, he was sentenced to prison for committing a carjacking. He survived his sentence, he says, by reading. Now a writer and lawyer, Betts is the founder of Freedom Reads ...

Freedom Public Library in Ocala reopened April 13 following a years-long expansion project that increased its space from 8,100 square feet to 32,000 square feet. Library Director Julie Sieg said in an ...

In the midst of a wearying, years-long assault on the freedom to read, librarians and library supporters unofficially kicked off the 2023 American Library Association Annual Conference with a shot of ...