Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful ...

Everett’s novel was honored at the 2025 awards, along with other books in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, ...

It's an innovative, award-winning educational platform aimed at helping children learn African languages. READ | Australia to ...

Mabel Segun, author of children’s books and Nigeria’s first female table tennis champion, died on 6 March 2025 aged 95.

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

Liberian poet and journalist Aria Deemie, a rising literary voice and two-time Press Union of Liberia award winner, is set to make her debut in the global poetry scene with the release of Humans for ...

Marionette puppetry, which was added to the Red List of Endangered Crafts in 2023, will feature in a jazz-inspired musical ...

Des Moines Performing Arts (DMPA) announced the five engagements headed to Des Moines as part of its 2025-26 Wellmark Blue ...

Author Robert L Forbes read shared springtime poetry from his book “Let's Have a Bite: A Banquet of Beastly Rhymes” and after the event singed his books for kids. Children’s librarian ...

African children are not short on imagination, but they are short on reading stories that reflect their own world. Today, many of the books children encounter from a young age are beautifully ...

Soon after, I became a life member, making a life-long commitment to the fraternity beyond learning the organization's history, learning organization poems and songs and learning a secret handshake.

And jump rope songs or chants, passed down from girl to girl, were our main exposure to rhyme and rhythm. Jump rope was big. And necessary. Which doesn't mean our songs were profound—just valuable as ...