Boys who go to neighborhood barbershops in the Mobile and Pritchard, Alabama area are getting more than a haircut. They’re also discovering books they can relate to, with characters that look like them.

For the first time, the Minneapolis-bred icon will be telling the details of his story, in his own words.

This 8-year-old California native started a non-profit organization that provides books to thousands of kids, and makes her the youngest business owner in her city. Click on the audio player to hear more about her organization and her incredible act of kindness, in this edition of Human Being of the Week! Listen to the “The D.L. Hughley Show” LIVE weekdays […]

What does a nine-year-old girl who loves to read and write do? Write her own book, of course.

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Oprah Winfrey is expanding her empire to include the launch of her own book imprint, with her own planned memoir set as its first fruit. Flatiron Books announced Thursday that Winfrey’s The Life You Want is scheduled for January 2017 and will “reveal never-before told stories” that show how “anyone can put their life on […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — For this interview, President Barack Obama was the one asking the questions. In a discussion held last month in Iowa and posted Monday by The New York Review of Books, Obama asked Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson about faith, democracy, education and writing. Obama explained that he met with Robinson because […]

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Courtney Holmes, a barber in Dubuque Park, Iowa, has been nurturing the fundamental gift of reading for the children in his community. When they come for a cut, Holmes shows them precisely what is most important. Listen to the audio player to hear the rest of this amazing story about our latest Human Being of the Week! Sign Up For […]

In August of 1974, Beverly Johnson became the first African-American model to grace the cover of Vogue. She went on from there to have a pioneering career as one of America’s first Black models, but recently she’s made headlines for fending off the advances of Bill Cosby. On the heels of that revelation, she’s released […]

The most troubled have the most captivating life stories. Gucci Mane has always been able to capture his own story with a pen and pad, but now…

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NEW YORK (AP) — Like her classic “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Harper Lee novel coming out Tuesday is a coming of age story. And not just for Scout Finch. “Go Set a Watchman” is set in the famous fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the mid-1950s, 20 years after “To Kill a Mockingbird” takes […]

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She’s the woman you love to hate, but Karrine Steffans is laughing all the way to the bank. Her explosive tell-all book, Confessions of a Video Vixen, released in 2005, sent shockwaves throughout the hip hop industry and beyond. Since then, she’s written three New York Times bestselling books, Confessions of a Video Vixen, The Vixen Diaries, […]

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Despite the glimpses into celebrity life we get on a daily basis thanks to social media, nothing beats getting an in-depth story straight from the source.…