Switch between CA and NY editions here. G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as ...

This is the only alphabet where A stands for Angela Davis and Z stands for Zora Neale Hurston—and you haven’t learned it, yet. Writer Kate Schatz and artist Miriam Klein Stahl have radical ambitions ...