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Good News! On June 22, 2020 the 31st edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT® Data Book arrived. This annual publication reports the latest available data (2018, prior to the pandemic) on trends and statistics in child well-being nationally and ranked by...

Race matters. Now more than ever. We have recently been traumatized and roused to riots and protests by the horrific death of George Floyd. A police officer, callously ignoring pleas of “I can’t breathe,” kept his knee jammed on the dying man’s neck for over eight...

Bishop T.D. Jakes was named “America’s Best Preacher” by Time Magazine. His many New York Times Bestsellers show the depth, range, authenticity and moral authority of his knowledge, as well as his extraordinary power to connect with and deeply impact others. Through...

The chorus of the above-cited song - by lyricist Johnny Mercer and composer Richard Whiting - might fittingly be played as background to reading this glorious book, One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez. While...

Science reads like a thriller when the subject is “the life of” the world’s most famous equation, and the author is David Bodanis. Each of the five symbols in “E=mc2” merits its own chapter. Why? Because the stories behind each symbol are dramatic. The dramas are...

As if the unprecedented challenges of parents and caregivers confined to staying at home with small children for long periods of time during the pandemic are not enough, some families must bear the burden of an additional hardship - one of the parents is incarcerated....

An alchemist turns lead into gold. Brazilian author Paul Coelho has turned a slender magical tale into a modern classic. The Alchemist has a “devoted following around the world.” Its devotees include motivational speaker Anthony Robbins, Award-winning Actor Laurence...

They gathered in the prison yard of a California maximum-security prison. There, 235 men - for the first time - discovered something about themselves - and each other. The roads that led them to prison were paved with the same “bricks.” These bricks were called...

This book has made publishing history by having been on The New York Times bestseller list for ten consecutive years. First published in 1978, it made the list in 1983 and has been in print ever since - more than forty years - showing no signs of slowing down. It has...

Since it’s first appearance on the New York Times Best Seller’s List decades ago, this iconic book has not only worked wonders of transformation in the lives of countless individuals who discovered it on their own, but it has become a go-to book of therapists,...

It has been said that culture is knowing the best that has been done and said in the world. Few would argue that the works of William Shakespeare rank among the best. Yet too many people, while knowing of Shakespeare - do not know him "really." They have not...

On February 21, 1936, Barbara Jordan - destined to be the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention -...