Dr. Hartwell Francis reads from a hand-printed Cherokee language book made in partnership with Western Carolina University. (Photo by Anya Petrone Slepyan/The Daily Yonder) At the entrance to the New ...

Young people, especially, are choosing to read in English even if it is not their first language because they want the covers, and the titles, to match what they see on TikTok and other social media.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For the past decade, one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world, square mile after square mile, has been my home: Queens, New York. The ...