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 ...

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Sometimes credit isn’t given where credit is due. So it was a fine idea for Peter Rachleff’s former students, colleagues and friends to organize a symposium June 8-9 in honor of the former Macalester ...

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 ...

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once said, “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat ...

The first of the planned amenities for US prisoners opens in the Massachusetts jail where the campaigner was incarcerated in the 1940s Malcolm X writes in his autobiography of how he spent hours ...

With plans underway to expand the Freedom Public Library, a support group is hard at work to supplement the funding. There are seven Friends groups that support the Marion County Public Library System ...

The national non-profit Freedom Reads has announced the opening of four Freedom Libraries at Dorsey Run Correctional Facility in Jessup, Maryland, in partnership with the Department of Public Safety ...

Mayor Eric Adams, alongside the presidents of New York City’s three public library systems — Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library — joined forces with local ...