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The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...
“Big Jim and the White Boy” is a graphic novel from writer David F. Walker and Capital Region resident/illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson. It’s the second collaboration between the duo. Their ...
Author Nancy Rawles will unveil the 20th Anniversary edition of her book "My Jim" at 6 p.m. on Friday. This event, hosted at ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who ...
Walker and Anderson had a desire to show Huck and Jim’s experiences from the “perspective of the recipient of racism.” But even more than that, they sought to go beyond what happened in the ...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is an American classic. It tells the story of how the abused white boy Huck and the runaway black slave Jim teamed up to escape their circumstances.
"Move over, David Suchet, there's a new Hercule Poirot in town," said The Guardian. Peter Dinklage leads the multi-star cast ...
The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...
In 1937, three 'Abilene Boys' canoed 660 miles down the Colorado River. As adults, they repeated the journey in 1991.