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19 Apr 2022 7:21 am
LGBTQ community, people of color in the crosshairs of burn (correction) banned book movement
Students in one Pennsylvania school district are not allowed to read a biography of the first Black president, Barack Obama. In some Tennessee classrooms, a nonfiction comic book about the atrocities of the Holocaust is banned.
And one school district in Wisconsin banned from libraries a picture book about a gay rights activist who was assassinated.
In the last nine months, hundreds of books across dozens of states are being banned at an alarming rate. A majority of the bans feature books written by authors who are people of color, LGBTQ+, Black and Indigenous, and feature characters from marginalized groups.
And now, state Republican lawmakers are joining the movement, spurred by ultra conservative groups, to ban books from public schools and libraries.
Students in one Pennsylvania school district are not allowed to read a biography of the first Black president, Barack Obama. In some Tennessee classrooms, a nonfiction comic book about the atrocities of the Holocaust is banned.
And one school district in Wisconsin banned from libraries a picture book about a gay rights activist who was assassinated.
In the last nine months, hundreds of books across dozens of states are being banned at an alarming rate. A majority of the bans feature books written by authors who are people of color, LGBTQ+, Black and Indigenous, and feature characters from marginalized groups.
And now, state Republican lawmakers are joining the movement, spurred by ultra conservative groups, to ban books from public schools and libraries.