Tracy L. Gray discusses her debut children's book about single parenthood, community support, and reuniting her daughter with ...

Under guise of keeping kids safe, lawmakers look to subvert the freedom to read, columnist Kerry Drake opines.

Toni Morrison was a Lorain native who was known worldwide for her adult and children’s books. “She was probably one of the best writers in America,” Lorain Public Library Librarian Cheri ...

These repetitions reveal a harrowing truth. Such a portrait is timeless as long as racial inequality far too frequently sinks life and chances of life in this country. And despite the shrill denials ...

Bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney honors her former mentor Toni Morrison in a new children’s picture book, educating the younger generation about the literary legend’s iconic life.

Toni Morrison found power and joy and agency in ... Pinkney also wanted the book's structure itself to serve as an experience, so children and the adults who read it with them feel like they ...

Toni Morrison, born and raised in small-town Ohio ... In 1965, Morrison returned to New York with her two young children. A newly single mother seeking stability, she accepted a position as ...

excerpted from Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize speech Toni ... As too many lives are made collateral damage — men, women, and children; Palestinians and Israelis; Muslims, Jews, and ...

As the lights came up, there she was, the late Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate ... It was first a grocery store, then a school for Black children, then a rooming house — “a southern refuge,” she said, ...

She also wrote children’s books and essay collections ... the founder and board chair of the Toni Morrison Society, which supports scholarship and community outreach on her work and legacy.

The Toni Morrison Forever stamp is sold in panes of ... in 1970 while working full-time as an editor and raising two children. The novel centers on a sexually abused 11-year-old Black girl ...

“Toni Morrison’s books are in so many of our homes and abide ... said Morrison’s work is an important part of libraries' literary collections. “Through her novels, children's books and essays, she ...