At school, my English teachers assigned books by white men and white women. This was surprising, considering that I went to public school in Brooklyn, where my classmates were mostly black, Latinx ...

Eleven-year-old Marley Dias went on a quest to collect and donate 1,000 books with a black girl as the main character. Spoiler alert: She did really well.

The publicity materials for Zakiya Dalila Harris’s debut novel, “The Other Black Girl,” describe the book as a literary mash-up of “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Get Out.”That sets the ...

No one is a better candidate for a biblio-memoir than Glory Edim, the creator of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club with close to half a million Instagram followers. Fans of her club, which ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Desiree Evans and Saraciea Fennell about their anthology of horror stories from Black writers with the racial and gender representation they've longed for in the genre.

Books 50+ books to add to your reading list this Black History Month “I felt myself swept away into an unfamiliar, yet real, world. It’s one of the best books I have ever read.” ...

The book club is reading books by the banned Black author Jason Reynolds, including his 2017 novel “Miles Morales,” about a Black Spider-Man, and Brandy Colbert’s 2019 novel “The Only ...

The Black Girls Book Club at Cesar Chavez School in North Portland helps girls connect and increase their reading skills. Through reading, the fourth and fifth graders at Cesar Chavez School ...

There are chapters of the Well-Read Black Girl book club, founded by Glory Edim, 36, in independent bookstores across all 50 states, thanks to a partnership with the American Booksellers Association.

Dawn Turner’s memoir gives a tutorial of urban decay, White privilege, poor city planning and the influence of fads and digital advances on Black urban teenagers.