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Jahmal Lake is the founder of the Black-led nonprofit Our Kids Read. What started as a nonprofit to get more books in the hands of children, primarily kids of color, turned into a mission to close ...
I Am Me is the children's book of empowerment for every little black girl who sees beauty in herself ... Meet Henley, an all-around good kid, who hates to read. When he's supposed to be reading, he ...
Families and organizations came together at the Methodist Home Recreation Center on Saturday morning to bring diversity to ...
At Charlotte's Methodist Home Recreation Center, the Black Child Book Fair put books into kids' hands on Saturday.
Around the country, only 17 percent of Black fourth graders read proficiently ... throughout the city to provide over 50,000 free books to children. As Ayesha shared in the couple’s 2023 ...
When this year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress showed Black kids’ reading proficiency was the lowest of any racial group, some critics blamed education reforms like the Science ...
It’s critical for kids to have home libraries to foster a love of reading, but more than 60% of low-income families do not have any children’s books in their home. That's why Save the Children works ...