An excerpt of "My Journey with Maya" by Tavis Smiley — -- Tavis Smiley joins the "This Week" roundtable Sunday. Excerpted from the book MY JOURNEY WITH MAYA by ...

When Maya Gabeira was a teenager, she left her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to pursue her dream: surfing. And more specifically, surfing big waves. A handful of years later, and Gabeira has ...

Can you remember what it was like to be in fifth grade, in a home room class away from your best friends for the first time? If you had a human-made robot to help you adapt to your new normal, would ...

Less than a week after the U.S. Naval Academy removed 381 books and literary works from its library, a local Annapolis book club staged a reading of one of the removed books at Annapolis City Dock.

Award-winning Filipino author Bambi Rodriguez is taking her empowering Super Maya series beyond the Philippines, with a recent stop in Sydney. The books aim to champion inclusion, especially for hard ...

Maya Ganesan has broken the rules, and she’s not apologizing. She remembers her mother’s advice well: real poets sit in a quiet place and write. So at age four, she sat down on the couch and started ...

In her book, anthropology professor Lisa Lucero’s book explores how the Maya survived for thousands of years by building their societies on a foundation of respect for, and integration into, the ...

In the 1960s, what is said to be one of the rarest books in the world was discovered: an ancient Maya book called the Grolier Codex. While the physical book itself — meaning the actual pages — were ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U ...