Books on race, gender pulled from schools amid conservative push against 'radical' literature

, along with ‘The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood and “Fences,” the Pulitzer-winning play by August Wilson. Both Morrison and Wilson were Black.

Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, told Yahoo News that in her two decades with the organization she has not seen this many “challenges,” the ALA’s term for requests to remove books. “You have these — they call themselves parents’ rights organizations — pursuing this censorship agenda and arguing that censorship is the proper solution, but once you start using book banning as a tool, where does it end?” Caldwell-Stone said. “So you end up with work like ‘Maus’ being on the chopping block, so what comes next?”

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And that’s exactly why this has been happening here for the last 240+ years!!!! It needs to STOP!!! I want my white kids to learn what has happened, and how we got to today! I don’t want them to grow up ignorant!!!!

conservative censorship

Rich coming from the ban Dr Seuss crowd

Germany, 1933. REMEMBER!

Boy Christians can go on a crusade. Still, the fundamentalists are the best. None of that forgiveness without retribution 4 these fools... Now sure confederate flags during a riot get a pass. But, hey, if the guy woulda just shown his real birth certificate? GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

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