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Another Round

Episode 55: #1000BlackGirlBooks (with Marley Dias)

Another Round

BuzzFeed

Society & Culture

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Water and juice flow in the stude today for our totally G-rated, kid-friendly episode. Our guest is 11-year-old Marley Dias, who got sick of reading books about "white boys and dogs," so she started the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign. Our pal Ashley Ford joins us for a discussion of the books we love. We'll post the full book list at buzzfeed.com/anotherround. Plus: learn why Zootopia is a great kids movie with which to teach white adults about race.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone I'm heaven. I'm Tracy and welcome to another round with heaven and

0:03.7

Tracy. Oh, the velcro. The baritone. Yes, I don't know what that is. I was gonna say

0:10.4

very thing what I was like, I don't know what that is. We have such a fun show today.

0:16.4

I can't wait. What's going on today? So first of all this is a completely

0:19.9

g-rated episode. Yes. Because we have the world's most incredible 11 year old in

0:24.9

the building. And we want everyone to all ages to be able to hear the show. And

0:29.0

we're talking to the amazing 11 year old dynamo Marley Dias who decided that

0:34.0

she was tired of reading books about white boys and her dogs. That's a direct

0:37.6

quote from her. So she decided to do something about it and she's gonna tell us about

0:41.7

her campaign. And we're gonna be talking to the legendary Ashley Ford who we love

0:46.9

so so much. She is a dynamic writer and she's a huge fan of reading. And so we're

0:52.4

gonna have a fun little round table discussion. Our first round table in the studio. So we

0:57.1

have water and various juices to sip upon today. And we're also gonna talk about a

1:03.4

movie that we saw together. We want to go see Zootopia. It is an animated movie.

1:07.7

It's a kids movie but it tackles some really big adult issues and serious stuff.

1:11.6

Yeah. We're gonna walk talk about. Yeah. Let me get into it.

1:14.4

So what was this movie about Tracy? It was about a lot. There was a small what

1:31.0

happened. It was like going on. So the movie is about a cute little bunny rabbit. Her

1:35.3

name is Laura. No. Her name is Judy. What? I mean they both have two syllables.

1:46.7

Robin mistake. I'm sure. Oh my god. Okay. So it's a fictional universe where animals

1:57.1

live together. Some of them live in like the burrows. If you like it the main

2:02.2

characters are rabbit. So you live in a burrow. But other people live in this area called

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