Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

Kerry Washington , Jennifer Hudson and Danielle Deadwyler lead the stars at 56th NAACP Image Awards Creative Honors at ...

The region's strong ties with Black History Month place us with an added sense of responsibility to protect it as it comes ...

Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene handily differentiated herself from most librarians. She stood out for other ...

Black authors around the world are taking literary genres to new heights, and many of them started right here in the Bay. State of play: Axios asked the team at the San Francisco Public Library's ...

A political scientist explains how a confluence of personality traits and perceived status loss can encourage some people to generate chaos as a solution to their woes.

In the early 20th century — a time when men held most positions of authority — Greene was a celebrated book agent, a curator and the first director of the Morgan Library. She also earned US$10,000 a ...

Mayor Cherelle Parker joined the Free Library of Philadelphia and Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation on Friday to ...

ABC News' Linsey Davis speaks with Regis and Kahran Bethencourt, authors of the book "Greatness," about educating children on ...

The “Negro Motorist Green Book,” a guide for African Americans first published in 1936, was a valued resource at a time when travel held the promise of adventure but was also perilous. It is now the ...

Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley” is a creative re-enactment of James Baldwin and William F. Buckley's 1965 battle about the ...

Tariq Trotter’s 2023 memoir about growing up in Philadelphia will be the focus of the Free Library’s all-city reading program.