Beginning last May, she started raising money and looking for recipients. Becka Robbins’s books have gone to places like a pride center in West Texas and an LGBTQ-friendly high school in Alabama.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: We must challenge the subtle censorship of books as much as the brazen
Are librarians like us fighting censorship if we defend only those titles with which we agree?
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Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Yearning for unity in my adopted country
As I get older, I find it frustrating to witness the gradual erosion of the trust Americans reserved for their government and their pride in their democracy and rule of law.
Posted inNew England, News
Books banned in other states fuel Vermont lieutenant governor’s reading tour
As some states ban or restrict certain books in schools and libraries, Vermont’s lieutenant governor is on a statewide banned book reading tour, highlighting what he calls the importance of representation, free speech, open dialogue and exchange of ideas.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Are book bans unconstitutional? They are certainly political
In Missouri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus” about the Holocaust faces possible removal from schools for at least the third time over its depiction of a female character in a bathtub. In South Carolina, an Advanced Placement teacher has been forced to abandon her lesson about systemic racism using “Between the World and Me” […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Where democracy won in 2022
Make no mistake, extremist threats haven’t gone away – but it was also the year when ‘the good guys struck back.’
Posted inSchools and Education, Uncategorized
UMF hosts banned book performance
Featuring lines and dialogue from books that have been banned over the years for many different reasons, honor students at UMF gave a performance that was also their final project for a class on banned books.