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Public Library Joins In The Banned
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | 2 months ago
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The Greensburg Public Library has gathered its most subversive and challenged books and, instead of hiding them away in some dark closet, put them on display in the front of the building...The idea behind the week is to highlight books that have been...
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In Banned Book Week event, Vermont authors gather
Norwich :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Vt.— It's Banned Books Week, and a group of authors in Vermont are marking it by reading live passages from often-banned books or those written by authors who've faced censorship. Thirteen writers -- including David Macaulay, Ron Powers and Tom Bodett...
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Banned Books Week
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility I wasn't surprised to read that the American Library Association (ALA) reported at least 513 actual and attempted book bannings in the US in 2008. Here's the list of the ten most frequently challenged books of last year. What did surprise me is this interactive...
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Gadsden library takes cover off banned literature
Gadsden :: AL :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The Gadsden Public Library is recognizing the American Library Association�s Banned Books Week this year by encouraging readers to judge books not by their covers, but without them. Quote: �When you take something off the shelf for a 12-year-old, you�re...
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Judith Krug, founder of Banned Books Week, dies
Evanston :: IL :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Ill. — Judith Krug, a director of the Chicago-based American Library Association and a founder of its Banned Books Week, has died. Saturday at Evanston Hospital in suburban Chicago following a battle with stomach cancer...She had been head of the ALA's...
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Miami’s ban on “A Visit to Cuba” doesn’t go far enough…
Originally posted on monkeypundit.com The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the Miami-Dade County School District’s right to purge a book titled “A Visit to Cuba” from its libraries. A Visit to Cuba is one of many...
Tags: A Visit to Cuba, Miami, 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Court of Appeals, Vamos a Cuba, Censorship, Outrage, Banned Books
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