News & Press Releases
Press Release: Literary Awards 2020
Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. BCALA Literary Awards Contact: Gladys Smiley Bell, 757-727-5185 or [email protected] Press Room – The Pennsylvania Convention Center Press Release For Immediate...
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BCALA Announces Reading is Grand! Grant Winners
Black Caucus of the American Library Association announces Reading is Grand! Celebrating Grand-Families Telling Our Stories @ Your Library grant winners WASHINGTON, DC – During the American Library Association (ALA) Conference and Exhibition,...
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RESPONSE TO YET ANOTHER “LIBRARY WHILE BLACK INCIDENT”
Upon learning of another disheartening incident in which an African American library school student had the police called on her for being in the library which is a public space, I have reached out to the West University library branch to insist...
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Press Release: Kelsa Bartley Wins Smiley Student Travel Award
Ms. Kelsa Bartley, a student in the Master of Science in Information program (MSI’18) at Florida State University, is the winner of the 2018 Smiley Travel Award, sponsored by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA). The award...
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Black Caucus of the American Library Association announces Reading is Grand!...
NEW ORLEANS – During the American Library Association (ALA) Conference and Exhibition, June 21 – June 26, Karen Lemmons, Chair of the 2018 Reading is Grand! Celebrating Grand-Families Telling Our Stories @ Your Library Selection Committee...
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Press Release: BCALA and BiblioBoard Announce the 2018 E-Book Literary Awards...
Newport News, Virginia -March 30, 2018 -The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. (BCALA) and BiblioBoard announce winners of the 2018 Self-Publishing E-Book Award. Following the model of the current BCALA Literary Awards, the award...
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