Axe-wielding man hacks 100-year-old grandmother to death (Punch) A 37-year-old man, identified as Artur B., hacked his 100-year-old grandmother, Amalie G., to death using an axe. The incident happened on Monday in Hamburg, Germany, according to a Daily Mail report…
Toni Morrison novel “The Bluest Eye” off banned list in St Louis schools
A banned book by the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will be available again to high school students in a district in St Louis, Missouri, after the Wentzville school board reversed its decision to ban The Bluest Eye, in the face…
US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools
From calls in Virginia to burn “sexually explicit” books in a school library to a wave of challenges to titles by authors ranging from Toni Morrison to Alison Bechdel, the American Library Association is charting an unprecedented rise in attempts…
Toni Morrison re-defined and enriched the world of literature – Toni Kan
Every death diminishes us but some more than most. Toni Morrison aka Chloe Ardelia Wofford departed this mortal coil into the realm of the ancestors on August 5, 2019. Nobel laureate and critically acclaimed author of over 10 novels, Ms.…
Toni Morrison, author of ‘Beloved,’ dies at 88
Toni Morrison has passed away at the age of 88. A source at the famous author’s publisher Knopf reportedly said she passed away Monday night, but the cause of death is not yet known. According to decider.com, she is best…