An Ohio-born author had one of her books on the American Library Association's Top Challenged Books list for 2024.

Toni Morrison's words still have the power to shake the world. Even in an era when her books face censorship, her legacy ...

Organized pressure groups, not individual parents, are leading the fight to remove books from shelves, according to a new ...

This is Nuruddin Farah’s most powerful novel. As with all of his fiction, it is set in his homeland of Somalia. Maps is an absorbing account of an orphaned boy growing up among women during the Ogaden ...

Features Toni Morrison discussing her journey as a writer ... Morrison reflects on her novels, including "The Bluest Eye," "Sula," and "Song of Solomon," exploring themes of identity, freedom ...

The ALA defines a challenge as a “formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that materials be ...

Reading Toni Morrison as a Black girl ... enough they could be considered a recipe leaping from the pages of a novel—feels deliberate, a message to be decoded about her ideas of home, home ...

The award-winning Black feminist author Toni Morrison converted to Roman Catholicism in her teens, taking Anthony as her baptismal name and using Toni as a pen name. She wrote fiction featuring ...