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Former President Barack Obama joins Chicago library’s campaign against banning books

Former President Barack Obama joins Chicago library’s campaign against banning books

Former President Barack Obama penned an open letter to librarians across the nation while joining one Chicago library’s campaign against guide bans. &#a hundred and sixty;&#a hundred and sixty; &#one hundred sixty; &#a hundred and sixty;

 
 

‘Thanks So Much For Reading My Books In Prison’: Brian Kilmeade Ends Rod Blagojevich Interview With Hall-of-Fame Sendoff

Brian Kilmeade interviewed convicted felon and former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who gave him an sudden bit of information he used later within the phase. Blagojevich was convicted on federal corruption fees in 2011 and sentenced to 14 years in jail. Some of the convictions were later vacated by means […]

 
 

Iowa law limits gender identity instruction, removes books depicting sex acts from school libraries

 
 

Author Ian Falconer of ‘Olivia’ books for children dies

 
 

R.L. Stine Editing His ‘Goosebumps’ Books to Have ‘More Inclusive Language’

R.L. Stine Editing His ‘Goosebumps’ Books to Have ‘More Inclusive Language’

Sizzling off the controversial information relating to Roald Dahl’s legendary novels being rewritten to do away with language deemed offensive, R.L. Stine is now working to make his younger grownup Goosebumps series extra “inclusive.” Stine himself is concerned within the rewrites with Scholastic. One edit mentioned in a Deadline report […]

 
 

Right, Left, and Media Reject What Salman Rushdie Calls ‘Absurd Censorship’ of Roald Dahl’s Children’s Books

Right, Left, and Media Reject What Salman Rushdie Calls ‘Absurd Censorship’ of Roald Dahl’s Children’s Books

AP Photograph/Andrew Burton Classic books via youngsters’s author Roald Dahl are being edited and adjusted, with some lines modified, others eliminated, and a few new content material no longer written by using Dahl inserted below the pretext of “sensitivity” and up to date sensibilities, it was suggested this weekend, prompting […]

 
 

Marjorie Taylor Greene and George Santos Co-Sponsor Bill Seeking to Ban Certain Books from Schools

Marjorie Taylor Greene and George Santos Co-Sponsor Bill Seeking to Ban Certain Books from Schools

Craig Hudson/Sipa USA/Sipa by means of AP Images Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and George Santos (R-NY) have co-subsidized a invoice that will limit publishers from offering schools with “sexually specific subject material.” Flagged by LGBT Nation, the invoice – H.R. 863 – used to be filed by using freshman […]

 
 

Activist Bookbinder Removing J.K. Rowling’s Name From Her Own Books to Protest Her ‘Gender Views — For a Fee

An activist bookbinder is charging to do away with author J.oK. Rowling‘s name from her own books as a part of a protest towards her past feedback on gender. J.K. Rowling found her name trending on social media this week after a bookbinder in Toronto launched a video replacing the […]

 
 

Hitting the Books: Steve Jobs’ iPhone obsession led to Apple’s silicon revolution

 
 

Hitting the Books: Why lawyers will be essential to tomorrow’s orbital economy

 
 

Hitting the Books: The mad science behind digging really huge holes

 
 

Hitting the Books: How Mildred Dresselhaus’ research proved we had graphite all wrong

 
 

Hitting the Books: ‘Miracle Rice’ fed China’s revolution but endangered its crop diversity

 
 

Books are being banned from school libraries. Here’s what that does to students.

Books are being banned from school libraries. Here’s what that does to students.

Analysis displays studying controversial books is associated with higher civic participation. And children say e book-banning is hurtful and counterproductive.  &#one hundred sixty;&#a hundred and sixty;&#one hundred sixty; &#one hundred sixty;

 
 

Mike Pence’s family mourns BOTUS Marlon Bundo, the pet bunny who inspired children’s books

Mike Pence’s family mourns BOTUS Marlon Bundo, the pet bunny who inspired children’s books

Marlon Bundo, family rabbit of former Vice President Mike Pence and famous person of youngsters’s books, has died, Charlotte Pence Bond shared on social media.  &#a hundred and sixty;&#a hundred and sixty;&#one hundred sixty;