Posts Tagged ‘book censorship’
Utah school district sued over policy on 2 moms book
Lawsuit claims it’s unconstitutional to require elementary school students to get a parent’s permission to check out picture book.
I read banned books
But commitment to anti-censorship beliefs gets tested when kids come along.
PLUS: Resources, activities for Banned Books Week, Sept. 30 – Oct. 6.
Pentagon says it may prosecute ex-SEAL author
Defense Department’s general counsel says Matt Bissonnette, who wrote an account of the bin Laden raid, violated agreements not to divulge military secrets.
Book about librarians vs. censorship a worthy read
True Stories of Censorship Battles in America’s Libraries tells first-person stories of librarians standing up to those who would ban books from the shelves.
Pa. school board, parents spar over banning of Dirty Cowboy
Online petition and letters from anti-censorship groups have taken issue with decision to remove award-winning picture book from elementary school libraries.
Ray Bradbury and the threat to reading
For the prophetic writer who died this week at age 91, the freedom to read was something that shouldn’t be taken for granted.
5th Circuit upholds prison book censorship in Texas
Prison policies to promote inmate safety and rehabilitation are legitimate, but censoring books irrationally and inconsistently isn’t.
Once stocked, library books should not be pulled
Librarians can decide whether or not to purchase erotic trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, but should not bow to public pressure by removing books already on shelves.
Federal judge sanctions confiscation of inmate’s book
California case involving book by famous inmate George L. Jackson is another in a long line of rulings that unnecessarily restrict prisoners’ First Amendment rights.
Kite Runner to remain in Ark. high school’s curriculum
Two residents had objected to book’s use in senior AP English class, but Valley View School Board decides not to alter curriculum.
Whoopi Goldberg joins Banned Books Week read-out
Also, the authors of And Tango Makes three, the most-challenged book in the U.S., read from their work about two male penguins who raise a baby penguin.
Banned Books Week: defending our freedom to read
History reminds us that the struggle to maintain our intellectual freedom has never been easy. Also:
Mo. school district moves banned books back to library
But Slaughterhouse-Five and Twenty Boy Summer can be checked out only by parents.
Slaughterhouse-Five ban should make school board blush
Decision to ban widely respected book from Republic, Mo., high school sends some unfortunate signals about board’s view of educators and the students they serve.
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Ken Paulson is president and chief executive officer of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University and in Washington, D.C. Previously, Paulson served as the editor and senior vice president/news of USA Today.
Gene Policinski, senior vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center and president and chief operating officer of the Diversity Institute, is a veteran journalist whose career has included work in newspapers, radio, television and online.
John Seigenthaler founded the First Amendment Center in 1991 with the mission of creating national discussion, dialogue and debate about First Amendment rights and values.
Dr. Charles C. Haynes is director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum. He writes and speaks extensively on religious liberty and religion in American public life.
David L. Hudson Jr. is an expert in First Amendment issues who writes for firstamendmentcenter.org and for other publications. Hudson teaches law and was a scholar at the First Amendment Center.
Tiffany Villager is director/First Amendment studies at the First Amendment Center, which she joined in 1993. She also served as the center’s research manager and research coordinator, and developed the center’s library.
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Rushdie’s chilling reminder to protect free speech
The pen of a solitary novelist came under dire threat by the sword of radical Islam, as grippingly recounted in Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, Joseph Anton.