Students in the Reading School District are commemorating Black History Month by learning about outstanding Blacks in a variety of fields, including sports, music and science. They put what they ...

The crowd at the northeast Reading ballpark erupted in cheers as Eddie Day stepped up to bat for the Reading Actives season opener May 3, 1891. As the only Black player on the all-white Actives, Day ...

How do you teach children to read? This question is at the heart of a decades-long battle. When we read our eyes skim the print, we notice the length of the word and maybe the first letter, then our ...

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil” (1785) Oil on panel; 83.2 x 64.8 cm (32 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.) Johannes Vermeer had a serious thing for books. As it turns out, so did Edward ...

Reading has a proud baseball history that goes back a century, but the city experienced several lean years back in the 1960s. That was the topic of a presentation at the Berks County Heritage Center ...

Black literature is far too expansive to cover in just a month, especially if you look back through history at the works of luminaries like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Nikki ...

Back in the 1970s, Elaine Bowman attended the wedding of a former student at the old Hotel Abraham Lincoln in Reading. Little did she know that years later a piece of that building would become a ...