When access to information is restricted ... we lose one of the most important elements of our free society: the right to ...

East Side Freedom Library is hosting “a program explaining the history of “Watch Night,” a tradition that began on the last night of December, 1862, when many African Americans gathered in homes and ...

Libraries have long been a bastion of democracy. These grand spaces can embody the power of literature, architecture, community, and opportunity. Freedom Reads, an organization that supports people in ...

The works of George Orwell, Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood have found a new home inside two Ohio prisons. The Ohio Women’s Reformatory and Southeastern Correctional Institution are bringing in ...

Photo titled: Leaving for Camp, July 3, 1958. The Negro Motorist Green Book, later known as The Negro Travelers' Green Book, was a listing of restaurants, gas stations, hotels, department stores and ...

An independent library on St. Paul’s East Side will receive a $75,000 grant from the Otto Bremer Trust to help finance a staff position and fund other projects. The East Side Freedom Library, located ...

With plans underway to expand the Freedom Public Library, a support group is hard at work to supplement the funding. There are seven Friends groups that support the Marion County Public Library System ...

Eight years ago, Peter Rachleff and Beth Cleary founded East Side Freedom Library, transforming an old St. Paul Public Library building into a place where the histories of immigrants, labor, feminism, ...

Freedom Public Library is about to get a lot bigger. County commissioners, county administrators, Friends of the Freedom Public Library members and others gathered at the property mid-morning Tuesday ...