UNC alum Leigh Lassiter still remembers seeing a flyer for the Prison Books Collective on campus back in 2015. A few years later, Lassiter decided to reach out to the collective, and for the past five ...

PROGRAM IN TONIGHT’S 5 FOR GOOD. WE HAVE A BUNCH OF HARRY POTTER. REPORTER. IT’S AN EFFORT THAT STARTED IN CAMBRIDGE. THIS IS FANTASTIC. BACK IN 1972. DURING THOSE COUNTERCULTURE YEARS, A LOT OF THE ...

When Tandy Cobb was a young girl growing up in Clarksville, Tenn., in the 1950s, her parents, who were avid readers, would regularly take her and her brother to the local library to check out books.

"I am very thankful for your program and organization doing this for us in our darkest time when everyone else has given up on us," Jaime, an individual incarcerated near Gainesville wrote. Little ...

Several states, including Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee, have barred groups from sending free books to prisoners, citing fears of contraband. Advocates say that is not a cause for concern. For over ...

Jojo Sacks scanned brightly colored book spines inside a makeshift library, searching for what books best fulfilled an order. When nothing fit under Westerns, she moved to a shelf on the other side of ...

Volunteer Joyce Tanner selects books at the Prison Book Program in Quincy, Mass. It’s challenging for incarcerated people to access reading materials. In some prisons, libraries are not reliably open ...

The value of books and reading…where to start? Countless devotees have weighed in on the subject. Everyone from Confucius (“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. "Reading opens you up to the world. And it makes the world so much smaller," the singer said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...