Amanda Gorman, the nation's first National Youth Poet Laureate, has spoken out against what she describes as a book ban after access to the poem she recited at President Biden’s inauguration was limited at a Florida school.
"Unnecessary #bookbans like these are on the rise, and we must fight back," Gorman said in a post on
A review of five titles available at the library at Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes was triggered after a parent of two students filled out forms requesting the titles be removed"from the total environment," according to the documents obtained by the Freedom to Read Project, a group founded by public school parents and dedicated to fighting what it calls book bans in the state.
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