Incredible Girls: Marley Dias

Jan 4, 2019

Associate Editor Sage Daugherty launches her new 2019 column. Each week she will write about an incredible girl. First up: Marley Dias!

No Time For Fear – Politicking Girls: Marley Dias’s activism guide

Mar 6, 2017

Pre-teen Marley Dias is publishing an activism guide for children and teenagers. The publisher, Scholastic, announced that the guide is set for release in Spring 2018. Dias is best known for her social activism movement, #1000BlackGirlBooks, which she launched in...

2016: A Post Mortem

Dec 31, 2016

For girls, 2016 has been a fairly typical year. A year characterized by suicides, kidnappings, rapes, systemic abuse, and cyber-bullying. But there have been good moments as well: the amazing girls at the Olympics, Isabella Springmühl Tejada’s premiere at...

IDG 2016: Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress

Oct 11, 2016

In 2011, the UN declared the 11th of October as the International Day of the Girl, to empower girls and to acknowledge the discrimination and inequality girls face on a global, and staggering, scale. The theme for the 2016 International Day of the Girl is Girls’...

Marley Dias’ Campaign for #1000 Black Girl Books

Aug 14, 2016

  I always love hearing about young girls creating a meaningful difference in some way, so when I read that Marley Dias had created a book drive for books with main characters who are black girls I was very excited. 11-year-old Marley, who is from West Orange,...

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