(RNS) — Since childhood, I’ve been a regular target of ignorance and bigotry. My experience contributed to my becoming a scholar of history and religion, but more than that, it has given me a clearer ...

What was your favorite book as a kid? That question makes for a surprisingly effective icebreaker. You can tell a lot about someone from the books they read as a child. Case in point: I’m a journalist ...

Over the decades that I’ve been a professional writer, dozens of people have told me they want to write a book about their inner and outer lives as cabbies, baristas, pet sitters, pizza deliverers, ...

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Derrick Barnes felt there wasn't wide enough representation of Black people in the books he read as a kid. The Kansas City native's new picture book, “I Got You,” is his latest effort to write ...

GRAND FORKS – Local businessman and restaurateur Matt Winjum has been collecting as many unique life experiences over the years. His latest feat is the result of a process that started several years ...

TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa woman is teaching kids about equality through her new children’s book. Zuri Louis always planned on writing a children’s book eventually. She just wasn’t sure when she would ...