Banned Books Week (September 18 - 24)
Banned Books Week begins on September 18th and this year it has much importance since many educators across the country are facing fierce political attacks. Here's a great student opinion from the NYT. Ialso want to share this update from Open Campus regarding banned books . We have covered it before: school districts across the United States are increasingly censoring books that don’t align with white-washed conservative visions of the world. Art Spiegelman’s Maus , The Illustrated Diary of Anne Frank , Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird –these are some of the many books getting pulled from library shelves in American schools. In response to this concerning trend , the Brooklyn Public Library has made a bold move: For a limited time, the library will offer a free eCard to any person aged 13 to 21 across the United States, allowing them free access to 500,000 digital books, including many censored