Tag: Reading
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NPR/Ipsos poll: “Most Americans want to read books. We just don’t”
The NPR story about “Most Americans want to read books. We just don’t” piqued my curiosity. The poll found a gap between the desire to and acting on a desire to read. Maybe it’s incidental that National Library Week runs from April 6 through the 12th? Implicit in the Ipsos poll, it seems to put…
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Feb 14th Holds Frederick Douglass Day and National Black Literacy Day Too
How many North Americans know about an easily forgotten Black man who, after fleeing slavery in the United States, became arguably the best known and most photographed person of the 1800s? Frederick Douglass, who maybe little known in the 2020s was a former slave who upon escape became a counterexample to the toxic propaganda about…
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Adult Reading Remains Fundamental. But…
How many men or women decide during the last quarter of a year to remedy a new-year goal for self-development? A common goal is “I’m gonna lift weights” or “lose weight,” or both? I’ve been doing the weights work. I’m lagging in reading. A central reason for me to make up for ill-pursued new-year goals,…
Will Wright: Award-Winning Independent Journalism, Exec Oratory and More... 