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LeVar Burton has portrayed the Black experience "from our enslavement to the stars"
Scenes of destruction at the Factor Druk printing house, one of Ukraine's largest, can be seen days after it was hit in a Russian missile attack on May 27. Laurel Chor for NPR hide caption
Bookstores have come under attack in Ukraine. But interest in reading is only growing
Trump's pick for Vice President, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) arrives on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption
This absorbing debut novel about writing takes its cue from 'Mrs. Dalloway'
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Nikki Giovanni doesn't think about her legacy. But here's a moment she felt proud
Self-portrait after the avalanche, first winter ascent of Gasherbrum II, Karakorum Himalaya, Pakistan, Feb. 4, 2011. Cory Richards hide caption
In 'The Color of Everything," photographer shares how being bipolar shaped his life
Grammy award-winning soul singer Mavis Staples Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images hide caption
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer shares her leadership philosophy in her new book, True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between. Simon and Schuster hide caption
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has 'complete confidence' in Biden’s candidacy
Jill Ciment met her husband Arnold Mesches when she was his teenage art student. Random House/Random House hide caption
She was 17. He was 47. #MeToo changed how she thinks of their relationship
Author Alice Munro in 2009. Her daughter, Andrea Skinner, has come forward with allegations her stepfather abused her as a child and that Munro was aware and stayed with him until his death. Peter Muhly/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
"The first place I learned to be funny was on the schoolyard trying to defuse this weird tension around my body, says Ian Karmel. He won an Emmy Award in 2019 for his work on James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke" special with Paul McCartney. Kenny McMillan/Penguin Random House hide caption
Contestants on Love is Blind live apart from one another and do not see each other before agreeing to be married. Netflix hide caption
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'Emergency Quarters' are for pay phones (remember those?) in a new book by ‘90s kids
Pedestrians walk past the Fabulosa Books store in San Francisco's Castro District on Thursday. The bookstore is sending LGBTQ+ books to parts of the country where they are censored to counter the rapidly growing effort by anti-LGBTQ+ activists and lawmakers to ban queer-friendly books from public schools and libraries. Haven Daley/AP hide caption