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  • Banned Books Week: Be Proud to be Banned

    Today, I’d like to highlight one of my favorite authors: Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison’s work to me has been these haunting tales of loneliness, sacrifice, desperation, and turmoil. Set during some of the most difficult times for black Americans, Toni Morrison has this incredible way of making you feel and understand what it must have…

  • Welcome to Banned Books Week!

    Happy Banned Books Week and it’s going to be a good one. This year’s theme is “the freedom to read,” which feels oddly relevant given that everyone has been talking about. Censorship is always around us telling us what to do and what to think and how to say things. It’s the faceless folks that…

  • 2016 Banned Books Week and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

    I love Banned Books Week. If anything, it should be more awareness vs. passion for banned books, but maybe it’s the rebel in me that wants to read banned books because some group of people say that we need to protect our children from them. As an adult and a lover of books, I can…