A week after announcing an award for published authors and a grants program for emerging voices, named after the late Walter Dean Myers, We Need Diverse Books continues to announce new partnerships and initiatives intended to both fulfill and finance its mission of making books “with diverse, non-majority narratives” accessible to readers. WNDB began as a grassroots campaign this past spring in response to the lack of diversity in BookCon’s initial author lineup. The group’s founder, Ellen Oh, who is also its president, announced at BookCon that WNDB was developing, in collaboration with the National Education Association’s Read Across America program and First Book, a program to bring multicultural authors and their books into schools identified as serving children in need.
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