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Book Bans & Free Speech (with Suzanne Nossel)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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The Rise of Book Bands in the United States

Pen America has documented over the last couple of years more than 4,000 books banned in schools and both school libraries and classroom libraries. The first amendment kind of gets trampled and forgotten and just absolutely sidelined in all of this," says Pen America editor-in-chief John Sutter. "It's really enough of alarming effort to suppress certain narratives overwhelmingly the books that are targeted are by and about members of racial issues or LGBTQ stories and narratives"

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