When I first heard about the Human Library, I immediately thought that Buffalo would be a perfect city to establish a chapter. The first Human Library sprouted up in Copenhagen, Denmark. The concept?

There’s a multitude of activities lined up this weekend in metro Detroit. Among them is an event that offers a unique chance to confront stereotypes head-on: the Human Library. Here, you can engage in ...

Every book has a unique cover, but the real story lies within the pages. Getting more people to let go of initial assumptions is the Human Library’s mission. "Often times when we meet someone, we ...

Volunteers at a “human library” share their stories through conversations— sort of like a live, human memoir. The event’s organizer, Prairie Markussen, stands with Alejandro Joleanis, a volunteer who ...

There will be books, and there will be readers. Certainly stories to follow with lessons to learn, just waiting to be checked out. But this library doesn’t deal in text. Next Saturday, April 20, the ...

At a Human Library event at the Santa Monica Public Library in California, a police detective "book" talks to two "readers." Human Library events and projects, which are held at libraries across the ...

Every avid reader has probably wished at some point that they could sit down and have a conversation with a character from their favorite book. The Human Library tries to do that by having “human ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - People who went to the Hillary Clinton Children's Library checked out much more than library books Sunday. That's because it opened its doors for the first ever human ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Deb Duguid-May has a story to tell, growing up in apartheid-era South Africa as a white woman. "What I became so aware of was how fear was used to control people and how fear was ...

The story was updated to correct the headline. When a friend of Tanya Evans told her that she was sure there were Afghan refugees in Northwest Arkansas but she just hadn't met any, it gave her an idea ...