7-Year-Old Raises Thousands For Book & Crayon Donations
After asking her mother why brown people weren’t shown in film and books as often as “peach people,” Madison Wilson started a crowdfunding page with the goal of donating diverse books and Crayola’s Colors of the World crayon boxes to classroom libraries. So far she’s raised $7,000, with every $2,500 allowing her to donate 15 books and 25 crayon boxes per classroom.
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Gabrielle Union’s I’ll Have Another production company has teamed up with Freida Pinto’s production company Freebird Films Entertainment to bring us a series based on Tanisha C. Ford‘s memoir Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion. “In her book, Ford uses fashion as a through-line for time and identity — afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the ’60s, hip hop’s baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today.”
Scribd Adds 1,000 Magazines
Scribd, the U.S. e-book and audiobook subscription service, has expanded its magazine collection to 1,000+ ‘premium’ magazines from over 25 countries. Scribd CEO Trip Adler: “Over the last two years, we have seen the number of hours spent reading magazine articles increase by more than 50%.”