banned books
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Three Reasons Why You Need to Read This Toni Morrison Novel That Drives Book Banners Crazy
Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye; has been the target of book bans for decades. But we have three great reasons why it should be on your must-read list.
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Did You Know Reading Black Books Is Also a Form of Resistance?
Pages worth of protest may be sitting right on your bookshelves. This October kicked off during Banned Books Week, traditionally observed annually in the last week of September; but the history behind the censorship of books is worth revisiting any day of the year. In 1982, just a year into the escalating conservatism of the…
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Reading Racism: Don't Let Books Become Victims of Our Discourse on Race
At a time when racist actions fill our newsfeeds and send us into a low-grade depression, the last thing we want to see is the n-word in our children’s schoolbooks. So the recent decision of a Virginia mother to ask that state’s Accomack County to remove Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird…