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Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Activists marked 60 years since the march in 2023. AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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South African naturalist Adam Welz traveled the world to understand how climate change is "weirding" ecosystems. One of his questions: How to stay hopeful in a warming world? Brian Mann/NPR hide caption

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A naturalist finds hope despite climate change in an era he calls 'The End of Eden'

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(L-R) Taraji P. Henson as Shug Avery, Fantasia Barrino as Celie and Danielle Brooks as Sofia in The Color Purple, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption

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'Everyone walked away with part of themselves healed' – 'The Color Purple' reimagined

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Amazon-owned Goodreads makes little effort to verify users, and critics say this enables a practice known as review-bombing, in which a book is flooded with negative reviews, often from fake accounts, in an effort to bring down a its rating, sometimes for reasons having nothing to do with the book's contents. Becky Harlan/NPR hide caption

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Goodreads has a 'review bombing' problem — and wants its users to help solve it

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A display of some books that have been challenged around the country is seen at the Mott Haven branch of the New York Public Library in the Bronx, New York City, Oct. 7. Ted Shaffrey/AP hide caption

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To fight so-called book bans, some states are threatening to withhold funding

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Christian Wiman is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose. He's been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and served as editor of POETRY magazine. Danielle Chapman/FSG hide caption

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After 18 years living with cancer, a poet offers 'Fifty Entries Against Despair'

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Cord Jefferson, right, writer/director/producer of "American Fiction," is seen with cast member Jeffrey Wright, left, and Percival Everett, author of the book Erasure upon which the movie is based, at a screening of the film on Dec. 5 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption

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In a year of book bans, Maureen Corrigan's top 10 affirm the joy of reading widely

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Author Kai Cheng Thom next to the cover of her recent book, Falling Back in Love with Being Human. Author photo by Rachel Woroner hide caption

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