Mississippi Moms Raise 20k for "Where Are the Books That Look Like Me?" Campaign
"Characters in children's books are almost always white, and it's a big problem." Washington Post, 2014. The problem is not new. In 1965 Nancy Larrick's article in the Saturday Review, "The All-White World of Children's Books" documented that just 0.8 percent of the children's books told contemporary stories about African-Americans. Things aren't much better today. When the Matt Maxx team asked minority children who their favorite black book characters were, they didn't have an answer.
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