Jason Reynolds is an award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. This hour, Jason speaks with Manoush about reaching kids through stories that let them feel understood.

Two best friends and previous collaborators’ (Ain’t Burned All the Bright) diary-style accounting of their years spent living together in New York City is a moving, poetic, and visually rich homage to ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The D.C. area has claim to some of America's greatest artists: Duke Ellington, Roberta Flack, Langston Hughes. Now, a new generation of artists is paying homage to their D.C. roots ...

In a sequel to Miles Morales: Spiderman, writer Jason Reynolds crafts a response to censorship in the classroom. He speaks to NPR's A Martinez... Author Jason Reynolds on book bans, racism and ...

When news broke last week that Jason Reynolds was named Library of Congress National Ambassador for Youth Literature, the popular author of 13 young adult books said his goal would be getting kids to ...

Jason Reynolds arrives for breakfast at the Busboys and Poets on V Street one winter Saturday, he looks, atypically for a writer, like a model—black Saint Laurent coat and boots, black Rag & Bone ...

Miles Morales, the beloved protagonist of Jason Reynolds' Spider-Man novel, is back. And this time, he's dealing with in-school suspension for challenging his history teacher at an elite Brooklyn ...