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Judy Blume, James Patterson and other authors are helping PEN America open Miami office

Wednesday, October 4th, 2023

via WPLG (Florida)

Judy Blume, James Patterson and Michael Connelly are among 24 prominent writers who have raised more than $3 million to help PEN America open an office in Miami and expand it efforts to counter…

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Judy Blume, James Patterson and other authors are helping PEN America open Florida office

Wednesday, October 4th, 2023

via The Associated Press (New York)

Judy Blume, James Patterson and Michael Connelly are among 24 prominent writers who have raised more than $3 million to help PEN America open a center in Miami and expand it efforts to counter Florida's surge in book bannings in recent years.

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Column: Not satisfied with schools, book banners are now targeting adults’ right to read

Wednesday, October 4th, 2023

via Los Angeles Times (California)

Book-banning typically pits small groups of prigs and right-wingers against the community, but communities are fighting back.

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How to fight book banning? Show up

Wednesday, October 4th, 2023

via Tribune-Star News (Indiana)

Banned Books Week used to be a triumphal celebration over a quaint time in the past that inspired First Amendment champions to slap their foreheads and say, 'What were we

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Hummingbird Books ships challenged titles to readers in South Carolina

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023

via The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)

The Chestnut Hill bookstore joins with Beaufort County organizations to combat literary censorship

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Rising book censorship is also targeting public libraries, American Library Association says

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023

via KUNR Public Radio (Nevada)

Most of these books deal with race, gender identity or sex education.

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Banned Wagon visiting Houston to give away free books

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

via KPRC (Texas)

A book wagon bearing commonly banned titles will stop at Kindred Stories in Houston Saturday to distribute hundreds of free books.

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Banned Wagon visiting Houston to give communities free books

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

via Houston Chronicle (Texas)

The Banned Wagon plans to stop at Kindred Stories in Houston to distribute 500 free...

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For Banned Books Week, Michigan advocates take a stand against censorship

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

via Detroit Metro Times (Michigan)

Ann Arbor bookstore Booksweet is doing their part to make change and spread awareness about book bannings in the state

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How the nation’s most famous newspaper editor took on Trump and his own reporters

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

via Los Angeles Times (California)

Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron joins the L.A. Times Book Club Oct. 11 to discuss "Collision of Power," his book about Trump, Bezos and the future of journalism.

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Rahway’s Roosevelt School Holds Successful Back-to-School Night

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

via TAPinto (New Jersey)

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‘Don’t Drag Me Down’: Artists expound on ‘Today’s Battle for Liberation’ in Oakton College exhibit

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

via Daily Herald (Illinois)

This year's Oakton College Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program Art Exhibit features a record number of artists that address various topics across 15 mediums.

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Book bans are growing across Florida. So, a church and bookstore teamed up in protest

Sunday, October 1st, 2023

via Miami Herald (Florida)

A Coral Gables bookstore and a church, which calls itself 'a sanctuary for banned books,' were behind the Banned Books Week event.

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As libraries face ‘frightening’ situation, this new Kansas City event celebrates books

Sunday, October 1st, 2023

via The Kansas City Star (Kansas)

The library's new Heartland Book Festival will showcase a weekend of literature for all genres and ages, plus children's theater, music and more.

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Books bring us together, but books are under attack

Sunday, October 1st, 2023

via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)

The librarian and archivist at Rollins College writes about Banned Books Week, which begins Oct. 1, and Let Freedom Read Day.

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3 questions for George M. Johnson, whose book ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ has been banned in 5 states

Sunday, October 1st, 2023

via WPXI-TV (Pennsylvania)

George M. Johnson's debut memoir, All Boys Aren't Blue, set out to tackle the subject of what it's like to grow up Black and queer in America. The book, Johnson told Yahoo News, started out with the…

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Parenting in the age of information (and misinformation, and disinformation)

Saturday, September 30th, 2023

via Arkansas Times (Arkansas)

In a year when Arkansas's librarians are fending off book bans, and an executive order from Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders restricts what topics can be taught in classrooms, the battle over information…

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Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh enters Banned Books Week with more urgent mission

Saturday, September 30th, 2023

via Pittsburgh City Paper, Inc. (Pennsylvania)

The Pittsburgh public library system is using an annual celebration to highlight endangered writing and provide more resources to combat growing book-banning efforts.

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New York Public Library launches nationwide campaign to fight unprecedented rise in book bans across the US

Saturday, September 30th, 2023

via New York Daily News (New York)

NEW YORK — The New York Public Library is pushing back against the unprecedented rise in the banning or challenging of books in libraries and schools across the U.S. with

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