#Marley Dias

Marley Dias, 11-year-old founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks, is now the editor-in-residence at ELLE.com. Last year, Dias’s campaign to collect books for that shared stories of women and girls of color and put them in the hands of young readers was wildly successful, and so far she’s...  

Dias Family At the end of January we learned about the impressive endeavor of Marley Dias to collect #1000BlackGirlBooks by February 1 and we are happy to report that the 11-year-old activist has reached her goal. Dias launched her effort in November, “sick of reading about... The post Marley Dias

PhillyVoice Finding children’s books featuring characters of color can be tough, especially when they’re only included in about 11 percent of the books published each year. But one New Jersey tween has taken matters into her own hands. After reading Where the Red Fern Grows and the Shiloh series in