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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 news about censorship and book banning. Honestly, I don’t know what this article is trying to say. It has something to do with censoring school science textbooks, but it seems to be anti-evolution and anti-creationism at the same time. And what do Rush Limbaugh’s attitudes toward sea […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News: Fascinating discussion about the key figures involved in comic book censorship in the 1950s. “Simply put, I do my best to keep errors of fact off the letters page; when one does run, a correction is published … […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News & Commentary: Happy news from Sierra Vista, Arizona: Dreaming in Cuban, mentioned in my last YCRT! post, will not be banned after all. Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere removed from Alamogordo NM high school after parental complaint. Cave-in message from the […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News & Commentary: In Asheboro, North Carolina, all within the space of a fortnight, Ralph Ellison’s award-winning novel Invisible Man was 1) challenged, 2) banned, 3) reinstated. Would the school board have reversed itself if its actions hadn’t made it a national […]
Let me see if I’ve got this right. First, Republicans in Congress defund ACORN, the community-based organization that works on behalf of low-income families to improve neighborhood safety, help them obtain health care and affordable housing, and, perhaps most important, get registered to vote. ACORN can’t survive without federal funding, so it closes its doors. […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! censorship news: Good to know: five ways to bypass internet censorship and filtering. ACLU encourages FCC to resist calls to censor broadcast content. Network hygiene: US military blocks access to The Guardian’s website over Snowden revelations. “I’m fucked in […]