Getting prepped for an HBCU is an experience: packing that first campus wardrobe, gathering essentials for a dorm room, and mapping out all the important places on campus—especially the cafeteria. There’s another way to get ready that a student may not have thought of, and it starts at their local library.

“Literature is such an expansive and important thing, and books are capable of serving so many different purposes,” exclaimed Tony Weaver Jr., the Instagram sensation who’s ringing this alarm: reading is a fundamental right. As the founder of Nerds for Literacy, his organization is changing how kids get their hands on books.

“Reading is fundamental because it helps us develop a sense of who we are in the world around us. Reading determines the way that we treat ourselves and the way th

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