Erin Achenbach is the Lead Women’s Sports Editor at ClutchPoints, championing women’s sports coverage and media representation. The St. Louis native graduated from the University of Missouri’s School ...

The inaugural Coretta Scott King Classic women’s basketball doubleheader took place at Prudential Center in Newark ...

Coretta Scott King wasn't much of a women's college basketball fan ... "We want to move Dr. and Mrs. King beyond the history books," Tidwell added. Playfly Sports Consulting co-head Michael ...

and C.G. Esperanza, illustrator of "My Daddy is a Cowboy,” are the winners of the 2025 Coretta Scott King Book Awards honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for ...

She wrote more than 35 books throughout her career, including “M. C. Higgins, the Great,” for which she won the 1975 Newbery Medal. During her lifetime, Hamilton received numerous awards including the ...

Welcome to the Amsterdam News Family! I’m honored to be Amsterdam News‘ Publisher and my father, Wilbert “Bill” Tatum, before me. We’ve been reporting the news of the day from a Black ...

Erin Entrada Kelly's “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year's ...

Jason Reynolds’ “Twenty-four Seconds from Now …” received the Coretta Scott Award for a work by a Black author, and the King prize for ... LGBTQ children’s book, and Jonny Garza Villa ...

received the Coretta Scott Award for a work by a Black author, and the King prize for illustration ... Stonewall Award for best LGBTQ children's book, and Jonny Garza Villa's “Canto Contigo ...