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To celebrate our right as free people, to read and write what we choose to, and make decisions based on free will, The Great River Regional Library is holding their annual "Banned Books Week" now through October 2nd. Get our free mobile app Many of the books I read in school can no ...
The ABCs of Book Banning: Directed by Sheila Nevins, Trish Adlesic, Nazenet Habtezghi. With 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 pro
Between 2020 and 2022, book titles banned in libraries and schools (including books on race, slavery, sex and gender identity) rose more than 1,100%. "Sunday Morning" talks with advocates for removing books from shelves, and those fighting to p
“When we finished the film, there were 2,000 banned books, and now there are 6,000,” says Trish Adlesic, one of three directors of the Oscar-nominated short The ABCs of Book Banning.The documentary, which is the directorial debut of veteran doc executive Sheila Nevins and is also dir...
Banning certain books due to their constant use of inappropriate language, sexually explicit nature, and all around mature content has a respectfully reasonable reason to be inaccessible to younger audiences such as minors and teens; not young adults. The banning of books in libraries is outright ...
I did find it intriguing how much Bradbury seemed to see of our actual future – to me this wasn’t so much a story about the dangers of banning books as it was about the dangers of a society that purposefully pursues stupidity. In a weird way, it reminded me of the movieIdiocracy, ...
The ABCs of Book Banning co-director on why the Oscar- nominated doc short explores a politically charged debate from the perspective of children.
Controversy over banning books exists everywhere in the world. It is a hot topic in library and information science as well as in society at large. Challenging books happens quite often in the United States(U.S.). The activity of banning books in the U.S. is usually initiated by individua...
Religious authorities have been brought into the process, despite the line the government established between religion and government. Religious authorities are biased third parties that can ban books that are against their beliefs, even if the book contains nothing worth banning. The judicial system ...