Simeon Booker, Civil Rights Journalist Responsible For Emmett Till Story, Dies At 99

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Simeon Booker, Civil Rights Journalist Responsible For Emmett Till Story, Dies At 99

I wanted to dedicate my writing skills to the cause. Segregation was beating down my people. I volunteered for every assignment and suggested more. I stayed on the road, covering civil rights day and night. The names, the places and the events became history.” He leaves to mourn his wife of 44 years
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Haqqani Awarded at Dinosaur Illustration Contest in Spain

For over 10 years, Haqqani has been working as an illustrator and cooperating with museums and reference book publishers and journals around the globe, including the Western Australian Museum, Capstone Publishing, Black Rabbit Books, National Geographic magazine, Studio Fenix and Talaee
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Guess, who all came to dinner?

… everyone present at the dinner for that fantastic book he authored, The People of Next Door: The Curious History of India-Pakistan Relations, which traverses with sensitivity the ridge that separates creative writing from political analysis, and makes a profound contribution to peace in the subcontinent.
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Consumers Place Trust In Publishers' Sites

While most people get the majority of their news and information from social platforms, the sites and apps owned by publishers are more trusted, according to a recent study, commissioned by Digital Content Next, a trade association representing premium digital publishers, and conducted by Magid
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The State and Future of Social Video: Publishers look to Live Video in 2018

The survey, which consisted of 348 responses, with the majority (64.1%) coming from individuals working at a publisher or media company, also suggested that companies are looking to experiment in new formats, with a large focus on live streaming. Seventy-five percent of all participants and 82.9% of
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SNHU Students Flex 'SuperPowers' During National Novel Writing Month

Similarly, Amy Stevens, vice president of Academic Resources and Communication at SNHU, said NaNoWriMo presented her with a much-needed confidence builder as she embarked on the school's new online MFA in Creative Writing program. NationalNovelWritingMonthAmyStevensBody
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A Connecticut Christmas

Lehman, the writer of the text, is the director of creative writing at the University of Bridgeport and is the author of several books and articles, many about Connecticut. “It was such a gift to have him as a writer,” said Davis. She said he came on board after the book was photographed and highlighted facts
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Philly writers on 'Cat Person,' the short story that's got everyone in a tizzy

While Karen Rile, a writer and Penn creative writing professor, chalked it up to people not being familiar with literary fiction. “I've seen this happen repeatedly when something crosses over,” Rile said. There was that time in 1994 when the now-defunct Inquirer magazine's fiction issue published a short
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The True Spirit of 'The Simpsons' Lives On in These Bootleg Zines

I regularly collect content, index it, and find interesting ways to design and then publish a book from the content. I also heard Matt Groening was a fake Simpsons goodie collector, so this motivated me to do the book as a bootleg, I guess—and one reader got my book signed by him at the LA Book Fair.
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Rajbangshis decry book slur on icon

Cooch Behar: An association of the Rajbangshis based in Cooch Behar sent a letter to chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday requesting steps against a private publishing house they allege has printed some “derogatory” phrases about the community in a history book. “A private publishing house
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History Of Our Town (Dec. 12, 1969 Edition)

(The following entry in “The History Of Our Town” by Lucille Basler was published in the December 12, 1969, edition of the Ste. Genevieve Fair Play. The Herald in 2015 began publishing in order the series of articles written by Basler, which began publication in December 1966. This month we backtrack
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Kanye West's Writing Camps Helped Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig Creative Process

By now, the majority of the people are aware of Kanye West's working process. While he began as a producer, he's since created mega writing camps where he gets some of the best songwriters in the world together to help concoct the project's he's working on. They say that two minds work better than
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What is a Thread? New Twitter feature lets you compose your entire rant before publishing

… and so on, to create a chain. Clicking on one of these individual tweets allows other users to see the entire threaded message in sequence. The new, official Thread feature will allow users to compose the whole message in one go, and then press “tweet all” to publish the tweets in a staggered fashion.
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Senatobia, MS Author Publishes Memoir

COM) Blessed Serenity, a new book by Cloteal Adams Fitzpatrick, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. … The book covers family history, such as her grandfather George running away to become a professional pitcher with the Negro Baseball League; the attempted lynching of her
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Griffiths wins 2016 ACT Book of the Year

Griffiths was chosen from a shortlist of five, and his book was praised by the judges as 'a celebration of history and historians [that] moves easily from the broad perspective—what history is and what it does—to a detailed account of the work of fourteen authors'. He will receive a $10,000 cash prize.
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Remembering Simeon Booker, “The Dean of Black Journalists”

Booker, who joined Johnson Publishing Company, the publisher of Jet and Ebony, was noted most for his historic reporting on the 1955 lynching murder in Mississippi of 14-year-old Emmett Till, an Illinois teenager who was visiting relatives in Mississippi. Till had been beaten then hanged by a group of
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