An 11-year-old girl from New Jersey named Marley Dias received national media attention this month for her drive to collect 1,000 books featuring protagonists who are black girls.

“I was sick of reading about white boys and dogs,” Marley explained in an article on PhillyVoice.com. The sixth-grade…

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