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With the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week set to begin on Sunday, September 22, a week of events will serve to celebrate diversity in literature and to remind Americans that, in ...
Mark Herron isn’t exactly a media lawyer. His specialty is discrimination and employment rights, and most of his cases involve mistreatment in the workplace stemming from gender, race, or disability ...
I was telling a reporter about book bans as I got into the Uber. “PEN America has reported exactly 3,362 book bans in public schools during the 2022–23 school year,” I said. “There were over a ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Holy cow pie! The Bible continues to be one of the most frequent targets of book banners in our country.
Perhaps you read about Florida’s most recent efforts to beef up book banning in public schools. Yes, Florida — a state where test scores already lag — is trying to make sure students have fewer books ...
I'm referring, of course, to the annual Banned Books Week sponsored by The American Library Association and Amnesty International. Silly me, I celebrated by mistakenly being smug about it. A friend ...
In “Areopagitica,” John Milton notes that if books corrupt, then the censors would be the most corrupt citizens in the land. I read with amusement and sadness the Oct. 9 front-page article “A brigade ...
I still have my original, tattered copy of “The Enormous Egg” by Oliver Butterworth, 50 years later. It’s hard for lifelong readers to remember what book set them on that path, but “The Enormous Egg” ...