“I’m teaching my daughters in an indirect way to think critically about everything they’re consuming. If they’re watching TV, I ask, ‘Where are the brown girls?’” — Haitian-American author Ibi Zoboi
Read the conversation between Ibi Zoboi and author Zetta Elliott on race in YA sci-fi and The Hunger Games on BitchMedia.org.
The lack of diversity in kids’ books is a real problem for many kids in need. To become strong readers, they need to see themselves in books and stories.
Today, at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting, First Book proposed a solution.
READ MORE: http://blog.firstbook.org/2013/06/13/lack-of-diversity-in-kids-books-and-how-to-fix-it/
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“Well, when I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, ‘Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there’s a black lady on television and she ain’t no maid!’ I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.”
— Whoopi Goldberg: : submission : :
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