“Regimes ban books, not democracies," said Gov. J.B. Pritzker Protect Democracy By Charisma Madarang Florida School Restricts Amanda Gorman's Inaugural 'The Hill We Climb' Poem "I'm gutted," wrote the American poet in response to the restrictions ...
On Banning Books, a New Florida Law, and Hooking Students on the Joys of ShakespeareA Florida parent wants his child's school to remove a memoir written for young adult readers that...Schwartz, Richard
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Judy Blume also weighed in on the push to be "rewriting" Roald Dahl's classics and the homophobic rise of banned books in the modern era.
The short is bookended by someone on the other end of the generational spectrum: Grace Linn, the 101-year-old free speech advocate whose visit to a Florida school board meeting went viral after she showed a quilt she had made displaying the titles of banned books and compared banning to ...
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut board of education has voted two keep two books on its town's high school shelves after weeks of acrimonious debate over book-banning that culminated in the resignation of two Republican board members.
Since 2021, school districts have challenged books in 37 states, with Florida and Texas leading the pack, according to PEN America. Caldwell-Stone said, "These were organized efforts by groups of parents arguing about parents' rights. Moms for Liberty soon came to prominence as a group that ...
The ABCs of Book Banning: Regia di Sheila Nevins, Trish Adlesic, Nazenet Habtezghi. Con Adler, Ruth Anne, Arianna, Avalee. Reveals the voices of the impacted parties of books banned from school districts, inspiring hope for the future through the profoun
“We’re in our first month of school, and I would guess I’ve spent four hours emailing parents who want me to justify the books in my curriculum or ask me about my personal moral beliefs. I tell them I use the district’s curriculum, but it doesn’t seem to matter. My school sa...
Some of your work, most notably your book “Maximum Ride,” was banned in some Florida elementary schools last year. What do you feel the removal of your book, and many other authors’ books, represents about the trajectory of the United States’ appreciation and disse...