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With the aid of the American Library Association’s Top Banned Authors lists, NCAC has compiled this list of 10 books that excite our minds and hearts with their powerful stories – and were nonetheless challenged or banned in schools and libraries.
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Kansas Senate Passes Bill That Could Jail Teachers for Controversial Material
The Kansas Senate last week passed a bill that could send teachers to jail if they expose students to material deemed “harmful to minors.” While proponents say the intention is to shield children from pornography, critics fear that the overbroad statute could criminalize many legitimate topics of study, from literature to art to biology. In fact, this effort began last year in response to a sex ed poster that was briefly displayed in a middle school classroom.
From The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, one of NCAC’s participating organizations.
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“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book,’ Wilde wrote in the introduction to The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the fact that it has survived his moral crucifixion as well as his sainthood is proof that the claim might be true. Think what we will of the man, the book is luminous, terrifying, wonderful.” Alex Miller, Jr. writes about Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, and their “trial by fiction.”
fishingboatproceeds shares his thoughts on censorship with Penguin Presents: Authors Stand Up for Free Speech.
Author Sherman Alexie, recipient of the National Coalition Against Censorship 2013 Free Speech Defender Award.
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Neil Gaiman tells the story of Mike Diana, the first American artist ever to be convicted of obscenity for his own material.