The annual African American Children’s Book Fair (AACBF) returned to Philadelphia for the its 33rd year. The book fair is one of the oldest and largest book fairs for African American children in the ...

Niclette Mundabi of Atlanta wanted to do something special for her 35th birthday. Instead of receiving presents, she decided to give books—thousands of books—to children in her native country, the ...

Books have long been a cornerstone of cultural preservation and empowerment; this is especially true within the African-American community, where books created for us and by us have a history of being ...

Over the last 35 years, Books For Africa has delivered close to 60 million books to children in Africa. The organization's efforts has allowed nine libraries to open up in Somalia.

Tom Warth once visited a school library in Jinja, Uganda, that had nearly everything a library needs — except books. There was a librarian, a card catalog, tables, bookcases and students, but the ...