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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mural at Maya Angelou High School depicting its namesake. Angelou was a crucial early influence for Glory Edim, the founder of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

I am writing you all on behalf of my 8-year-old sister, Kennedy Rain Thompson. At this moment, as you see on the return address, I am incarcerated and so I can’t do much to help my little sister, but ...

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 ...