It didn't take long before complaints began to circulate on Twitter about the image used on the cover of this week's Publishers Weekly to illustrate the annual feature on African-American book publishing. Read More
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It didn't take long before complaints began to circulate on Twitter about the image used on the cover of this week's Publishers Weekly to illustrate the annual feature on African-American book publishing. Read More
It didn't take long before complaints began to circulate on Twitter about the image used on the cover of this week's Publishers Weekly to illustrate the annual feature on African-American book publishing. Read More
Literary
When Publishers Weekly released its new issue this week, with a cover story on African-American books, it illustrated the article with a photograph of a black woman whose hair is full of Afro picks, right, all of them molded to look like closed fists giving a black-power salute. Read More
Culture
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Two days before the inauguration, PARADE published a letter from Barack Obama to his daughters about what he hoped for them and all the children of America. On this Father's Day, we asked the President to reflect on what fatherhood means to him.
Literary
In early May, White House Counsel Greg Craig circulated a memo inside the West Wing. Part of a series of memos on protocol, it explained how to deal with writers researching books and articles on the White House.
African-American
It started with an Angel Tree.
One Christmas, Olivia Stinson met kids whose names hung on a Christmas tree at her church. Their names were there because their parents weren't; they were in prison.
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Culture
A reporter pressed Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Monday on whether the White House is concerned about the fate of newspapers.
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A reporter pressed Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Monday on whether the White House is concerned about the fate of newspapers.
African-American
Embedded in our nation's core values is a spirit of community, generosity and entrepreneurship -- a can-do attitude that says no challenge is insurmountable.
When so many people are struggling to make ends meet, we need everyone pulling together to solve our nation's problems and to lift up our fellow Americans. And this includes our young people. Today, more than ever, we need their energy, enthusiasm and idealism.
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Books
"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts." (William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style," 1918)
Business
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will produce its last printed edition on Tuesday and become an Internet-only news source, the Hearst Corporation said on Monday, making it by far the largest American newspaper to take that leap.
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will produce its last printed edition on Tuesday and become an Internet-only news source, the Hearst Corporation said on Monday, making it by far the largest American newspaper to take that leap.
Literary
Does Barack Obama believe it's time for America to apologize to al Qaeda?
Does he share the increasingly vocal calls of his fellow liberals that Americans should not just apologize to Osama and his followers but pay reparations as well?
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Christian
The high-risk, questionable venture is a staple of biblical narratives -- Noah building the ark, the Israelites heading out into the wilderness without any provisions, the idea that a couple of loaves and fish could feed a crowd. So maybe Rick Warren was reading Scripture instead of the business pages when he decided to expand his ministry this year by launching a glossy new magazine with a $10 cover price.
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The high-risk, questionable venture is a staple of biblical narratives -- Noah building the ark, the Israelites heading out into the wilderness without any provisions, the idea that a couple of loaves and fish could feed a crowd. So maybe Rick Warren was reading Scripture instead of the business pages when he decided to expand his ministry this year by launching a glossy new magazine with a $10 cover price.
Sports
The latest book by former Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy became his third consecutive bestseller when it debuted this past week at No. 2 on the New York Times Best Sellers List for Hardcover Advice.
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Christian
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., has launched a quarterly magazine called "Purpose Driven Connection," along with a bundle of personal growth tools designed for small group implementation.
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Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., has launched a quarterly magazine called "Purpose Driven Connection," along with a bundle of personal growth tools designed for small group implementation.
Books
The publisher of a disputed Holocaust memoir has canceled the book, adding the name Herman Rosenblat to an increasingly long list of literary fakers and ending with a heartbreaking crash his story _ embraced by Oprah Winfrey among others _ of meeting his future wife at a concentration camp. Read More
The publisher of a disputed Holocaust memoir has canceled the book, adding the name Herman Rosenblat to an increasingly long list of literary fakers and ending with a heartbreaking crash his story _ embraced by Oprah Winfrey among others _ of meeting his future wife at a concentration camp. Read More
Literary
Dec. 9 marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton, and fans around the world are celebrating with literary events, exhibits and readings of his epic poem Paradise Lost.
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Dec. 9 marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton, and fans around the world are celebrating with literary events, exhibits and readings of his epic poem Paradise Lost.
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