• Agency, Courage, and Building #1000BlackGirlBooks

  • Jul 21 2021
  • Length: 36 mins
  • Podcast

Agency, Courage, and Building #1000BlackGirlBooks

  • Summary

  • In this episode of Duke’s Life of Significance series, hosts Sanyin Siang and Pau Gasol interview Marley Dias, the sixteen-year-old founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks, a campaign to identify one thousand books with black girl protagonists. The movement, since its founding in 2015, has collected more than 13,000 books, now complied in a database. In this interview, Marley discusses intergenerational courage, community, and what it means to live a life of significance at any age, saying, “When it comes to living a life of significance, you can start at any point in your life. You don’t have to wait.”

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