There is a saying that goes, “what is meant to be will always find a way.” Alaya Dawn Johnson has always believed that she needed a […]

“I attended my home.” That was one of the answers given by author and illustrator, Javaka Steptoe, to an interviewer who asked what school he attended […]

Sharon G. Flake’s 1998 debut novel, The Skin I’m In, made a huge impact on readers across the globe. It is a story about insecurities, specifically […]

In an interview with Reading Rockets, Kadir Nelson described his decision to change his major from architecture to art this way: “I decided, even if I […]