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 ...

NEW YORK — This September, outside a boutique store in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, members of the Well-Read Black Girl book club sat in a misshapen circle of folding chairs on the ...

Glory Edim founded Well Read Black Girl in 2015 with a mission of connectivity. Books, she says, were a tool for “healing and empowerment” in her life. In Well Read Black Girl, she wanted to create a ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A mid-Michigan girl scout plans to collect and donate 1,000 ‘Black-girl books’ after a popular hashtag made it’s rounds on social media. #1000BlackGirlBooks became popular back ...

Glory Edim founded the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015 as a way to honor her love of books, a passion that started during her childhood. What began as a small gathering has grown into a ...

The way Glory Edim tells it, it all began with a T-shirt. It was a birthday present from her partner, bearing a simple statement: "Well-Read Black Girl." The shirt was also embellished with names of ...