"Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academy or the commodity driven language of science; whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist plunder in its literary cheek – it must be rejected, altered and exposed. It is the language that drinks blood, laps vulnerabilities, tucks its fascist boots under crinolines of res

Nobel Prize - Toni Morrison was born into a working-class...

"We fired her for cause, but we rehired her and we kept her." Take a trip with the Page Count podcast to visit the Toni Morrison Reading Room at Lorain Public Library System! Local History and Archives Librarian Cheri Campbell walks listeners through the room while sharing stories of Morrison’s time growing up in Lorain (including how she got hired, fired, and hired once more at Lorain Public Library), her 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature win, her appearance at the reading room dedication in 1995,