Okay, full disclosure, I never read any Baby-Sitters Club book. But you know what I’m talking about, right? We all had some endless series we read where a few kids just like us navigated the ...

This story is featured in the September/October issue of ESSENCE, available now. For Black women, friendship and sisterhood are sacred, with an unspoken language of shared experiences. However, it can ...

Jewelbots, a programmable friendship bracelet that debuted on Kickstarter last week, is on a mission to make coding popular among pre-teen girls. Jewelbots surpassed its $30,000 crowdfunding goal in ...

Stacia Deutsch, read by Sisi A. Johnson. Listening Library, , unabridged, 3 CDs, 3 hrs., $27 ISBN 978-1-5247-7738-8 In this sweet and informative tale, Lucy joins the middle school coding club and is ...

Friendship bracelets have been a mainstay of middle-school fashion for decades. From knotted threads to plastic lanyards to interlocking charms, each generation seems to find its own unique way of ...

In 2012, Reshma Saujani founded Girls Who Code in response to one very big, but until then, highly ignored problem: the gender gap in technology. It's no secret that tech jobs are among the fastest ...

For the better part of five years, I’ve been going to a shooting retreat in the foothills near Yosemite to improve my skills and have a bit of fun. These retreats or camps have themes and one ...