Jacob Marley Jacob Marley Jacob Marley is a fictional character who appears in Charles Dickens's 1843 novella "A Christmas Carol". He is Ebenezer Scrooge’s deceased business partner, now a chained and tormented ghost, doomed to wander the earth forever as punishment for his greed and selfishness when he was alive. Marley roams restlessly, witnessing the hardships others suffer and lamenting that he has forever lost his chance to help them. Marley arranges for the three spirits to visit Scrooge and gives his friend an opportunity for redemption, which Marley tells him was "...a chance and hope of my procuring." In "A Christmas
Marley Dias Marley Dias Marley Dias (born 3 January 2005) is an American activist and feminist. She launched a campaign called #1000BlackGirlBooks in November 2015, when she was in sixth grade. Marley Dias, named after reggae singer Bob Marley, is of Jamaican and Cape Verdean descent. She was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey. When Dias was aged 11, she complained to her mother that all of her mandatory reading was books about white boys and dogs. She said, "There wasn't really any freedom for me to read what I wanted." After talking to her mother, Dias decided to