Trump suddenly triggers the first African-American librarian in Congress
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Trump suddenly triggers the first African-American librarian in Congress
With apparently no warning, the first woman and the first African-American to be a librarian in the congress received an email from the Blank House Personnel Office by informing Carla Hayden that she had been dismissed. AP News reported That Hayden had recently been criticized by the Defense Group of the Conservatives American Accountability Foundation for “the promotion of children’s books with” radical “content and literary equipment written by Trump opponents”. The AAF went to X to celebrate the termination of the hours before the news was made public. Democratic leaders condemned this decision and congratulated the management of Hayden, with New Mexico senator Martin Heinrich, saying that Donald Trump “took his assault on American libraries at a new level”. It is exhausting to be horrified by taking good people who do a good job, and I cannot start imagining how much Hayden felt such an e-mail and disdainful ending his historic career at the Congress Library, “with immediate effect”.
A new Judy Blume adaptation is now streaming
If you have Netflix and you are a fan of Judy Blume, you may want to consult this series of eight episodes Forever. “It is rewarding to know that, 50 years after its release, the love story at the heart of always always resonates with the public”, ” Blume said of the adaptation of the Showrunner Mara Brock Akil With Lovie Simone as Keisha and Michael Cooper Jr. as Justin. Published in 1975, Forever Undoubtedly become the most controversial novel of Blume, often the target of censorship, due to explicit sex scenes – the center book the first time of a couple for adolescents. Learn more about how Brock Akil tells the classic story of Blume through a black goal Of Nadira Goffe writing for Slate.
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1919 The author and friends collaborate on a bookstore café
Well it’s A beautiful story of friendship, coffee and books. 1919 Author Eve L. Ewing, the journalist winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Trina Reynolds -Tyler, and the award -winning organizer based on the media Andrea Faye Hart – Long -time friends – are associated to manage a bookstore and a socially concerned coffee bookstore. Building coffee opened in 2017, co -founded by Hannah Nyhart who sold the shop au trio, and the team plans to rely on community space rather than revising it. An update provides particularly good news to book lovers: Ewing says it is planned to extend the bookstore. Happy reading and coffee to the southern side of Chicago!
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