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Louise Meriwether, the author and activist whose debut novel “Daddy Was a Number Runner” is widely regarded as a groundbreaking and vital portrait of race, gender and class, has died.
I was twelve when my mother left a pamphlet titled, “Now You are Ten” on my pillow. Fortunately, my older sister had already schooled me on menstruation, a topic Mother chose not to address. Unfor
Literature is key to a healthy democracy, but schools are leaving books behind.
Book bans aren't the only threat to literature in American classrooms.
Coming up on this half-hour edition of Here and Now, the ongoing efforts to combat the leading cause of cancer deaths in Black women, breast cancer.