Marley Dias is a 13-year-old girl with big ideas and a big heart. She's also an author, public speaker, and on the Forbes list "30 Under 30." Dias found herself getting frustrated at the lack of books with characters who were like herself. She decided that she would set a goal to collect 1,000 books with black girl characters to donate to libraries. The #1000BlackGirlBooks had begun. She has surpassed that goal 10-fold and is still going! She has collected over 11,000 books and donated them to libraries. She has recently released a book called Marley Dias Gets It Done and So Can You! Here are is a video of Marley telling you more about her role as activist and author!
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