When I was growing up, every year on Mother’s Day, kindergarten classes around the county I lived in would invite moms to come and sit for a reading of the 1986 book “Love You Forever” by Robert ...

Alexis McGill Johnson doesn’t know if she would have been allowed to read Judy Blume’s “Forever” in junior high school, but at the time, she wasn’t taking any chances. In the early 1980s, McGill ...