It all started with a t-shirt. Three years ago, Glory Edim’s boyfriend gave her a gift that perfectly spoke to her love of books, a shirt with “well-read Black girl” emblazoned on the front. Edim ...

No one is a better candidate for a biblio-memoir than Glory Edim, the creator of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club with close to half a million Instagram followers. Fans of her club, which foregrounds ...

For Glory Edim, stories are more than entertainment, they’re a form of liberation. As the founder of the beloved literary platform Well-Read Black Girl, Edim has spent the past decade amplifying the ...

Activism comes in different forms—for Glory Edim, the founder of the Well-Read Black Girl book club, it's a community that gives women a safe space to embrace their identity. When I first started ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Glory Edim, who is the founder of the Well-Read Black Girl book club, about her new memoir, and the books that shaped her life. I'm guessing most of us have a favorite ...

Reading is, in some ways, a solitary enterprise—unlike movies, music, or sports, it’s something you generally do by yourself. But books have the capacity to make us feel less alone in the world, not ...

In Entrepreneurs Run the World, we get advice and insight from game-changing founders with big ideas. This week we talked to Glory Edim, creator of Well-Read Black Girl—a book club and festival ...

Since 2015, Glory Edim, founder of Well-Read Black Girl, has curated a space for Black women and girls to engage with Black literature and each other. In nearly six years, the book club, which began ...

Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, ...

At an Authors Guild gala honoring Toni Morrison last May in New York, two women started chatting — about their hair, about their dresses and, ultimately, about books. Glory Edim and novelist Tayari ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mural at Maya Angelou High School depicting its namesake. Angelou was a crucial early influence for Glory Edim, the founder of ...