Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A K-8 school in Florida’s Miami-Dade County has prohibited its elementary students from reading several of its library’s books.

Apr. 16—The pairing of poetry and Bible verses led to a poignant Good Friday service at the First United Methodist Church in Oneonta on April 15. Reverend Cynthia Walton-Leavitt, pastor at the First ...

One day after President Donald Trump’s campaign released a TV ad attacking presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden as a socialist sympathizer, Democrats hit back, noting the ad — which ...

Activist and poet Amanda Gorman, who was the country's first ever National Youth Poet Laureate, recited an original poem before Sunday's Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay ...

Tybre Faw met the late congressman at a Selma march in 2018. Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta echoed with applause for a young boy from Tennessee who admired Rep. John Lewis and was tapped by the ...

Two American Canyon High School students, Mistura Bankole and Paige Rosal are the winners of the Napa County-wide contest for Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. The first-place winner, 11th ...

As hundreds celebrated the life of Congressman John Lewis on Thursday, a 12-year-old Tennessee boy who recited one of Lewis' favorite poems stood out during the civil rights icon's funeral. Tybre Faw ...

A Miami parent’s complaint that the highly lauded poem written and read by young Amanda Gorman at President Biden’s inauguration carries hate messages and serves to “cause confusion and indoctrinate ...