Four years after making waves at President Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021, the poet and activist has a new picture book, ...

In observation of MLK Day, a new commemorative copy of King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (HarperCollins, $17.95) will be published Jan. 14 in time for the national holiday, and reading it — whether ...

Amanda Coletta is a Toronto-based correspondent who covers Canada and the Caribbean for The Washington Post. She previously worked in London, first at the Economist and then the Wall Street Journal.

Girls on the Rise is a celebration of young girls, "all beautiful, not for how they look but for how they look into the face of fear" ...

Amanda Gorman and her new book, 'Girls on the Rise.' ...

Poet and author Amanda Gorman offers a key line ... And is - I'm wondering if it's connected at all to this poem that you wrote in 2021 called "We Rise." GORMAN: Yes, absolutely.

carrying its quiver of arrows. Every word we utter now is a memory until the sun returns. Stay with the song. The bright cry of the peacock. Morning light touches the grass. It is time to leave.

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Where did the SARS-CoV-2 virus come from? We don’t know. Scientists think the most likely scenario is that it circulated in bats, like many coronaviruses. They think it then infected another ...

He said the incident didn't appear to pose any further threat to the community. "We do know who rented the truck," McMahill said. "We are looking at that individual, but I am not prepared to ...

Every two years, Pew Research Center publishes a report on the religious affiliation of members of the incoming Congress. This report is the ninth in the series, which started with the 111th Congress ...