But her most powerful work is rooted in the personal: jagged dramas of young women growing up hard in punishing poverty, reflecting Arnold’s own upbringing in the council flats and weedy lots of ...

School districts in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida axed about 700 books from school libraries in the 2023-2024 school year, according to a Florida Department of Education list.

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"The Plain Sings” is her second short film. The Early Bird International Student Film Festival is the biggest Bulgarian forum dedicated to support the creation of student short films. For two decades, ...

This year’s event brought a wide selection of creative costumes, with some of the judges' top choices inspired by books like Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Ray Bradbury’s ...

Gunn and a panel of librarians from the New York Public Library pick a best costume winner This year's event saw costumes ...

Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas’ wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, scientists say. By Jack Tamisiea Today, few critters are as abundant as ...