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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 America's 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. The girls lived in poverty, while Pet Milk's profits from a previously untapped market of Black fami...

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.