Dolly Parton's father grew up poor and never got the chance to learn to read. Inspired by her upbringing, the 78-year-old country music legend has made it her mission over the past three decades to ...

KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT 530. WELCOME BACK. A LOCAL PROGRAM FOR PRESCHOOLERS IS MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE. NEW AT 530. KCCI’S NICOLE TAM EXPLAINS HOW PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY ARE HELPING KIDS MAKE SOME BIG ...

United Way of Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro President and CEO Kristi Williams speaks at Augusta Health Thursday, June 29, 2023 next to a cut-out of Dolly Parton. Photos by Rebecca J. Barnabi ...

For more than 50 years, the Prison Book Program has been built on one simple idea: Everybody deserves the freedom to read. The Quincy-based nonprofit sends tens of thousands of free books each year to ...

Pizza Hut’s Book It! literacy program, founded in 1984, has reached more than 70 million students — and counts the radio host Charlamagne Tha God among its fans. By Sarah Bahr Sarah Bahr was a Book It ...

Washington lawmakers have cut funding for a children’s literacy program that serves more than 121,000 children in the state. The Imagination Library is a literacy program run by The Dollywood ...

Simon & Schuster is introducing a new "multi-platform education and resources program," Books Belong, during this year's Banned Books Week (October 1-7), as part of an effort to expand the publisher's ...

Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand in 2022. Her work has previously appeared in digital publications like PAPER and ...

Reporting on the 40th anniversary of the popular pizza literacy program sent one writer on a mozzarella-scented memory trail. By Sarah Bahr Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and ...

Emmanuel "Book" Richardson, the former Arizona and Xavier assistant coach, will lead the new academy team at "The Program" in New York beginning during the 2023-24 season. Book Richardson is coming ...

Virgie Townsend is the author of the short story collection “Because We Were Christian Girls,” which won the 2022 CNY Book Award for Fiction. She lives in East Syracuse. If you need a reason to feel ...