Marley Dias, the New Jersey sixth-grader who started the drive #1000BlackGirlBooks to gather books featuring girls of color, visited The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore Wednesday night and talked about reaching her goal.
The 11-year-old started the drive in November
hoping to find books with characters that looked more like her. She told
her mom she was sick of reading books that she couldn't relate to at
her school, St. Cloud Elementary in West Orange. So, she decided to do
something about it. With the help of her mother, Dias set out to collect
1,000 books with Black girls as the protagonists and a plan to donate
them to her school and a school in St. Mary, Jamaica, her mother's
native country.
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Source: NBC News
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