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#BannedBooksWeek is here! Honorary chair and award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay kicks off the annual event spotlighting book censorship in style! youtu.be/m5GMnBQ_H9I?fe… #FreedBetweenTheLines w/@ARRAY
Banned Books Week
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Banned Books Week
@BannedBooksWeek
Banned Books Week, the annual spotlight on book censorship and intellectual freedom, will be held October 1 - 7, 2023. #BannedBooksWeek
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- #BannedBooksWeek is here! Our Honorary Chair, the inimitable @levarburton, is ready to take action - are you? Join us in supporting library workers, educators, authors, and readers everywhere on Let Freedom Read Day, October 7! #LetFreedomRead bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-re…
00:00 - "But what you don’t have a right to do it to impose your beliefs about your children on everybody else’s kids. Censorship is just not OK." 💯 Truth from #BannedBooksWeek Honorary Chair @levarburton! #LetFreedomRead bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-re….@levarburton has some advice: "read the banned books I like to say, that is where the good stuff is" @MSNBC
00:00 - It's officially #BannedBooksWeek! Here are some frequently cited reasons why books are threatened with censorship, via @OIF
- Thank you, @levarburton for your leadership of #BannedBooksWeek and for your steadfast advocacy for books and literacy! #LetFreedomRead #LetFreedomReadDay.@levarburton to @AliVelshi on Banned Book Week: “80% of the people in the country are against these bans and find them to be patently ridiculous…" Listen to @MSNBC’s “Velshi Banned Book Club” wherever you listen to podcasts.
00:00 - "What does it say to you to have this book banned? I feel like it says that it’s not okay. To be a victim. To be a misfit. It’s not okay to talk about all the things that are hurting you, because your life is too ugly to mention." @rainbowrowellto @CBLDF ow.ly/PAUF30m0dwl
- Beloved reading advocate, writer, and television and film star @levarburton will lead this year’s #BannedBooksWeek as honorary chair! #LetFreedomRead bit.ly/3ZoB8VT
- The freedom to read is under attack. Let’s do something about it. We’re taking action to defend the right to read on #LetFreedomReadDay. Whether you have 5 minutes or all day, take at least one action today & beyond: bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-re… #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans
- "This is a fight for the truth..." We are so excited to welcome @IamGMJohnson as the #BannedBooksWeek Honorary Chair for 2022! @nytimes bestseller, @NABJ award winner, @NCSSNetwork Carter G. Woodson honoree, & #bannedbooks champion! Join us Sept 18-24! bannedbooksweek.org/george-m-johns…
- As we wrap up #BannedBooksWeek and #LetFreedomReadDay, we want to thank everyone who joined us in uplifting and defending the right to read this week and every week. #LetFreedomRead
- As #BannedBooksWeek comes to a close, we want to send our gratitude to everyone who is fighting against censorship in ways big and small this week and beyond! You inspire us!
- Join #BannedBooksWeek Honorary Chair @IamGMJohnson, LIVE on Twitter for a #BannedBooksChat! This Wed, 8/24, at 7pm EDT bannedbooksweek.org/gmjchat/
- We are so excited that @angiecthomas @JerryCraft will talk banned books w/us on 9/21 at 6pm EDT! With @PENamerica's @jeremycyoung & @the_emancipator's @amberwaves! Made possible by @HarperCollinsCh bannedbooksweek.org/event/a-conver…
