Noticing that there were not many books or movies featuring people with brown or black skin, 7-year-old Madison Wilson decided to do something to increase diversity awareness in her mostly white town of Slovang, Calif. She has raised over $7,000 through a crowdfunding page and by selling snacks at her community's Juneteeth celebration. For every $2,500 raised, Madison donates 15 books and 25 packs of Crayola's "Colors of the World" crayons (which feature 24 new crayon colors representing 40 global skin tones) to a classroom. So far, she has been able to give donations to three schools in her predominantly white area. Madison's goal is to make sure every kid is able to read stories with characters of all different skin tones and be able to color a picture with skin shades that match their own.

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