Sarah Booker

1 month ago | bookriot.com | Cristina Garza |Robin Myers |Sarah Booker |Erica Ezeifedi

Shows like Murder, She Wrote and The Golden Girls hold a special, nostalgia-filled place in my heart. If you are a fellow person of culture, there are Golden Girls goodies for readers. And, if you’re looking for another reading challenge to follow—apart from our 2025 Read Harder Challenge, of course—Danika Ellis has gathered some books that will fit this year’s Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge.

Jan 9, 2025 | electricliterature.com | Cristina Garza |Sarah Booker |Robin Myers |Moshtari Hilal

In 2016, nine years ago, I published a list of forthcoming books by women of color that had piqued my interest. As a novelist and occasional critic, I was interested in looking for such books to read and, perhaps, review. Given I’d had trouble finding as many as I’d hoped, I thought others might also be having trouble and could find the list I’d compiled useful. The piece spread widely, and I was told it helped inform other people’s books coverage and syllabi.

Mar 14, 2024 | brightonandhovenews.org | Sarah Booker

Councillors who fail to attend meetings may have their allowances withheld as the fallout continues from the election of two councillors who attended just a handful of meetings before they resigned. The Green opposition leader Steve Davis estimated that Bharti Gajjar and Chandni Mistry had together received allowances totalling about £23,000 since last May.

Mar 11, 2024 | ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton |Barry Rodrigues |Sarah Booker

Finastra today announced that Jefferson Bank, an independent, bank serving communities across Texas, has selected Finastra Payments To Go, a payments-as-a-service solution for its new instant payments services. The agile, resilient, cloud-based payments solution will help Jefferson Bank to efficiently deliver both RTP TCH and FedNow services 24/7, and accommodate the rapidly growing volume of instant payment transactions.

Oct 25, 2023 | kansascity.com | Mónica Ojeda |Sarah Booker

For horror fans, October's the most wound-erful time of the year, but scary content isn't scarce the other 11 months, either. Entertainment that frightens, disquiets and generally unnerves is big business. This Halloween sees prequels for both "The Walking Dead" and "Pet Sematary," in addition to the usual franchise sequels.