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Traditional efforts — like summer reading programs and storytimes — could be difficult this summer with social distancing guidelines. But...

Julie Smith, a licensed counselor for Child First, an intensive home visiting program that provides mental health support to young...

Kids are out of school. Parents are home from work. At Book Harvest, a children’s literacy organization in North Carolina, we’re as...

The Durham Public School System hosts meal sites across the county to feed families in need each week. Recently, educators have become...

In the few months it was open before the pandemic closed its doors, Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews was full of people: customers browsing...

COVID-19’s presence in our city and state and, indeed, throughout the country and the nation, brings uncertainty and unease. Governor Roy...

As child care facilities struggle to decide whether to close during the coronavirus pandemic, many parents might face a lot more time at...

As we all dramatically change the way we’re living our lives during this coronavirus pandemic, local businesses are struggling, including...

Our own Ginger Young was delighted to join Molly Ness, host of the End Book Deserts podcast, to talk about Book Harvest: where we’ve come...

“Everyone needs to become a good reader so that when they are an adult they will have a better life,” said 6-year-old Jade Vaughan-Bey...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream — and so does Book Harvest, a Durham nonprofit that hosted its ninth annual Dream Big Book Drive and...

Can buying a book combat racism? It can, when the characters look like the current population. Pediatrician Jacqueline Dongé agrees....

Bria Wurst has always loved reading. As a child, she would read at the dinner table until her mother reminded her to put away her book...

Many of us — teachers, parents, policymakers, business leaders — have been wringing our hands at the Oct. 30th release of the National...

The January 2020 ABC11 Together Perspectives features segments highlighting Martin Luther King, Jr. Day events. Scroll down to watch the...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, Jan. 20, this year. There are a variety of ways for kids and families to get involved, remember the...

As anyone who has ever read Goodnight Moon to a toddler knows, shared reading is a magical activity. It helps develop strong parent-child...

Durham, NC – Two young African American authors, Jeremiah Springer and Kassan Jones, both rising sixth graders in Durham Public Schools,...

On June 8, 29 young readers collected their diplomas at Durham’s W.G. Pearson Center in celebration of their five years of participation...