17-year-old Memphis-based entrepreneur Journi Prewitt created the Black Butterfly Beautiful box to inspire Black girls to read.
Ava DuVernay, Marley Dias, and John Legend received American Ingenuity Awards from Smithsonian Magazine.
An African-American boy launches a book club featuring literature with positive Black characters.
Literacy advocates press for more books with diverse characters.
Scholastic plans to publish a children's book on social activism. It's written by 12-year-old Marley Dias.
After it was announced this week that a Long Island, New York high school senior was accepted to all eight Ivy League schools, NewsOne decided to pay tribute to other students who also achieved major milestones over the past couple of years.
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