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 ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Glory Edim, who is the founder of the Well-Read Black Girl book club, about her new memoir, and the books that shaped her life. I'm guessing most of us have a favorite ...

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 ...