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Similar to the Wicked History series, Twisted History takes a look at several historical figures, their lives and their actions. The tit...

All four photos  X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation , by Marcus Gardley, directed by Ian Belknap The Acting Company Photo Cred...

When a picture-book length biography of Malcolm X is needed and the reader is a pre-teen or teen, teachers and librarians may want to ...

All three photos Julius Caesar , by William Shakespeare, directed by Devin Brain The Acting Company Photo Credit: T Charle...

New Victory Teaching Artists Janet Onyenuchea and Chad Beckim pose with students after a pre-theater workshop.  Photo credit: Jessica Fen...

Random Family follows the true life of Jessica, a young sixteen-year-old girl living in one of the poorest sections of the South Bronx...

Castle Cranshaw, aka Ghost, has been running for the past three years, ever since the night he and his mother fled their home as Ghost’...

Two powerful essays couched in the form of two  letters, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time is likely to be as gripping for incarcera...

The story begins with a black man bleeding and being pulled from a police car with his hands cuffed behind his back on 123rd street in H...

There is much to love in this picture book biography featuring a condensed narrative which could easily interest a twelve or thirteen y...

Patricia McCormick visits Bronx Hope's school library.  Photo credit:  Allison Trevaskis On Monday, February 13 th , two-time Nati...

George Kalinsky Muhammad Ali training at Madison Square Garden , 1967 Chromogenic print from original scanned film Courtesy George Kalins...

On Tuesday, December 20th, award-winning author Patricia McCormick visited with two groups of readers inside Belmont’s school library.  ...

Many students here at Passages have heard of Malala Yousafzai, but for those who have not, a quick mention of the fact that she was ...

Arn knows his aunt cannot afford to send him and his five siblings to school as well as feed and clothe them, so he has dropped out ...

Last night Passages Academy finished hosting our first round of this year’s parent-teacher conferences.  We were joined by our publi...

Michel was a fierce-spirited five-year-old when he disobeyed his parents to play soccer with his best friend one day after school in h...

Gabe is so close to high school graduation and the rest of his life as a trans teen.  While he is trying to navigate bathroom decisi...

While this gorgeous pop-up makes a valiant attempt to condense the glory of Verne’s sci-fi classic in sixteen pages, you can probably g...

Twins Joshua and Christophe have been raised by their grandmother after their father abandons them for his drug addiction and their mothe...