This story originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of ESSENCE, on stands now. Leon Thomas has always carried himself with a quiet duality—musician and actor, dreamer and realist, ...

Missing Long Island teen Thomas Medlin was caught on surveillance video walking on the Manhattan Bridge — moments before the cameras recorded an ominous splash in the East River, Suffolk County police ...

The iconic preschool entertainment brand will be fully rebooted this fall. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Get ready, preschoolers — there’s going to be a new Thomas the Tank Engine rolling into town.

The Cape and Islands library consortium, CLAMS, served 190,000 patrons and had 1.4 million checkouts last year. E-books and e-audiobooks have skyrocketed in popularity, a trend that has grown since ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thomas & Friends™, the beloved children’s franchise from Mattel, reveals a bold new look for Thomas the Tank Engine, kicking off a full-franchise relaunch rolling ...

Staff at an Ohio library were shocked to discover a note alongside something else unexpected in an overdue book returned by a young girl. "I bit off more than I could chew by checking 11 books out," ...

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is one of the largest children’s literacy programs in the world, gifting over 300 million books worldwide since launching in 1995. But the man leading the charge ...

Stark Library has opened a new 30,000-square-foot Operations Center in downtown Canton for its backend services. It serves as a central hub for ordering, processing and distributing materials to all ...