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Md. LGBTQ community, people of color in the crosshairs of ‘banned book’ movement

April 18, 2022

Students in one Pennsylvania school district are not allowed to read a biography of the first Black President, Barack Obama. In some Tennessee classrooms, a nonfiction comic book about the atrocities of the Holocaust is banned. And one school district in Wisconsin banned from libraries a picture book about a gay rights activist who was assassinated. In the last nine months, hundreds of books across dozens of states are being banned at an alarming rate.

Article Source: WTOP

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