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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.
Sometimes I feel I’m neglecting this blog, which is one of the reasons I’m posting about another mixed bag of subjects today. Why the taco theme? Well, that’s because tacos are the first item in today’s bag! Everyone’s getting excited over aerial drone deliveries again, and I’m here to piss on the dream. Ever since the original […]
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: 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 […]