PORTLAND, Oregon — A new book club has started up at a North Portland school, and it's become a place where one group of girls can relax and be themselves. At Cesar Chavez School, twice a week, a ...
A group of young girls gathered around an Upper Marlboro coffee table on a Saturday late last month, carefully analyzing a book by Jim Benton. It was the second meeting of the Butterfly Girlz Book ...
Book Club might be a misnomer, because the NDN Girls Book Club involves more than talking about books. This upstart literary nonprofit — run by Native women under the age of 25 who are also juggling ...
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 foregrounds ...
Two University of Massachusetts Amherst students had the idea to form their own book club over a meal at Franklin Dining Commons. Susan Reynolds and Yarah Kalae met on the first day of their freshman ...
They pick a title, read it and then gather to discuss it in detail. But unlike more traditional book clubs, many of these groups add on another activity — or multiple — to turn their gatherings into ...
A mural at Maya Angelou High School depicting its namesake. Angelou was a crucial early influence for Glory Edim, the founder of the Well-Read Black Girl book club. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles ...