Marley Dias, 17, Leads Campaign to Diversify Assigned Books for Students
by Kalyn Womack from on (#5XYQA)
In elementary school, the closest thing to Black literature offered to me was To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In high school, the only Black book I read was A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. The majority of literature on the syllabi revolved around white men or white women. Marley Dias, a 17-year-old ...