Award-winning children’s book author, Crystal Swain-Bates, was fed up with the lack of black children’s books on the market, so she founded Goldest Karat Publishing in order to fill the diversity gap in children’s literature. With over half a million books sold, Crystal and her children’s books have been featured in Forbes, CNN, Essence, Shaquille O’Neal’s tv show Game Plan , a nationally televised Amazon commercial, and used as props on television shows. Known as a “Diversity Publ