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Florida education officials report hundreds of books pulled from school libraries

Nov. 12, 2024 18:16 PM EST

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison. “Forever” by Judi Blume. “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut. All have been pulled from the shelves of some Florida schools, according to the latest list compiled by the Florida Department of Education...

50 years on, Harlem Week shows how a New York City neighborhood went from crisis to renaissance

Aug. 19, 2024 18:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — In the 1970s, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Disinvestment had taken its toll. Violence, crime and poor living conditions had become the norm and nearly 50,000 residents — a third of the area's...