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After losing my ability to read for nearly five years, I needed a way to ease back into books.

Born into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medical miracles. Annie Mae Fultz, a Black-Cherokee woman who lost her ability to hear and speak in childhood, became the mother of Americas first surviving set of identical quadruplets. They were instant celebrities. Their White doctor named them after his own family members. He sold the rights to use the sisters for marketing purposes to the highest-bidding formula company. T...

The origins and meaning of Black Twitter.

Cree Myles has harnessed the power of Instagram to encourage others to pick up Black literature.

Walton won the prize, which honors works of fiction and social import, for her debut novel in the first in-person ceremony since 2019.

On April 9, the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) opened A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, which explores the profound impact of the Great Migration on the social and cultural life of the United States from historical and personal perspectives.

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) by Broom, Sarah M. at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0802125085 - ISBN 13:  9780802125088 - 2019 - Hardcover

Hundreds of books across dozens of states are being banned at an alarming rate. A majority of the bans feature books written by authors who are people of color, LGBTQ+, Black and Indigenous, and feature characters from marginalized groups.

In the last nine months, hundreds of books across dozens of states are being banned at an alarming rate, including "Peter Pan" in Tennessee.

Most banned books were written by authors who are people of color, LGBTQ+, or Indigenous, and feature characters from marginalized groups.