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You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! Banned Book Links Texas ministers will protect teens from demonic “reading” habit Ten books read in school that will change your life as an adult Why The Giver is one of the most banned books in America Eleven quotes […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. Brunswick County NC school officials, in the wake of yet another parental challenge to Sherman Alexie’s young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, have decided the book will stay on the shelves of a middle school. One parent, though, […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! Arizona News: More on Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal, an elected official who is one of the key figures behind the infamous Tucson school book bannings of 2012 (a ban that is still in effect, by the way). Turns out […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. * Yeah, I thought it was Banksy too. Click the image to learn more about Spanish street artist Escif. YCRT! Banned Book News The best stories are local, and here’s a hilarious one from my own town, Tucson, Arizona: Censored […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. The photo is titled “Girl reading ‘Mickey Mouse and the Submarine Pirates’ comic book in newsstand with small dog lying across her lap.” It was taken in 1947 by Charles “Teenie” Harris, lead photographer of one of the USA’s leading black newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier. I couldn’t […]
I hope Fox News and the politically-motivated book banning mob they’re whipping up take a wrong turn and march right off a cliff.
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! Rant Legislators in the Kansas Senate are considering a bill that will make it easy for parents and district attorneys to bring legal action against teachers, librarians, and school principals who expose students to “objectionable material” (which the bill […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News: The current textbooks being used in public schools today, that your children are reading, memorizing and being tested on, are inaccurate, revisionist, anti-American, racist, climate change propaganda based on fake science, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, pro-Islam, Marxist, globalist, pro-Socialism/Communism, pro-homosexuality, […]