Friday, March 29, 2024

Can We Help Marley Collect A Thousand ‘Black Girl Books’ By Feb 1?

Marley Dias

*Talk about a challenge. Here’s one for ya!

Eleven year old Marley Dias is my type of girl!

If there is something she wants to change, she doesn’t sit back and ask WHO is going to do it. SHE does it!

Marley was sick and tired of reading books her school assigned. She simply had nothing in common with white boys and dogs. Period.

So she told her mother, Janice Dias, about her displeasure and mom asked, “So what are you going to do about it?”

Marley’s initial idea was to create a book guide that featured black characters, according to Huffington Post. But then she took the idea up a notch and came up with #1000BlackGirlBooks in November. It’s a book drive where she collected books that had black girls as the main characters instead of the sidekicks or background characters.

So with this, Marley, who works with her mom’s organization GrassROOTS Community Foundation, plans to collect 1000 books by Feb. 1, to donate to children. 

Read more at EURThisNthat.

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