Diversity News & Features

Damon, library support specialist at Denver Public Schools (DPS), and Torres, teacher librarian at DPS’s Montbello Campus, on Angie Thomas’s blockbuster YA novel and the upcoming film. 

UK school librarian Lucas Maxwell's students at Glenthorne High School in London booktalk their favorite challenged titles.

Tone policing happens during conversations or debates when one person, typically of greater privilege, thwarts a speaker's thoughts or opinions by reacting to their emotional tone. 

SLJ reviews the blockbuster Netflix adaptation of Jenny Han's YA series opener—epistolary style.

The author of So You Want to Talk About Race spoke with SLJ about what educators, and specifically librarians, can do to better serve students of color and change institutional bias and patterns of systemic racism in U.S. education.

Cassy Lee ignites diversity awareness at the Chinese American International School in San Francisco.

Inspired by Jacqueline Woodson's "Brown Girl Dreaming," three middle schoolers and their classmates created a project to impact the lives of younger students and literacy rates in Cleveland.