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Tribeca Film Festival 2018: How Naomi Wadler Disrupted the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards

Anyone who thinks children should be seen and not heard has clearly never heard of Naomi Wadler. The 11-year-old blew millions of minds when she appeared onstage at last month’s March for Our Lives “to acknowledge and represent the African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every national newspaper, whose stories don’t…

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

April 25, 2018
Entertainment

12-Year-Old Marley Dias Wants to Teach Kids Activism With New Book

Last year, when she was just 11 years old, Philadelphia native Marley Dias made it her mission to hold a book drive featuring books in which black girls were the main characters. Marley launched #1000BlackGirlBooks with the help of the Philadelphia-based GrassROOTS Community Foundation Super Camp, which was founded by Marley’s mother, Janice, along with…

By

Yesha Callahan

Published

February 15, 2017