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A man flips through a magazine at the Eudora Welty Library in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, April 6, 2019. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Federal money makes up a meager portion of public library income in the Magnolia State, but literacy advocates say its erosion puts vulnerable communities in peril.
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In this Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, portrait, youth services librarian Letitia Van Campen poses with a stuffed puppet at George Mason Regional Library in Annandale, Va. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
As the Institute of Museum and Library Services receives another stay of execution, a Virginia librarian illustrates the vital need for federal library funding.
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Darin Atwater's Soulful Symphony performs "MLK 50: Requiem for a King" at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Friday, April 6, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Darin Atwater’s Soulful Symphony took the stage at the National Museum of African Amerian History and Culture to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Decorative items for sale are pictured at the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Va., Friday, March 23, 2018. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
The first Sugarloaf Crafts Festival was held 42 years ago, in the spring of 1976 in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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The holiday decor at the inaugural Rosslyn Carols! event in Arlington, Va. — from the star atop the 28-foot-tall Christmas tree to the bows on lamp posts — boasted the business district’s signature purple on Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. (LINDSEY LEAKE/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Carolers’ voices echoed throughout the plaza, beckoning those in search of a little holiday spirit to the heart of the new mixed-use development.
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A 1598 woodcut depicts an exorcism. (CC-BY 2.0)
Exorcists are in high demand but that may not be the devil’s doing.
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