PEN America To Hold NYC Vigil for Ukraine Monday, Feb. 28 Following 2022 Literary Awards
(NEW YORK, N.Y.) – On Monday night, February 28, at the conclusion of the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards, PEN America will gather luminaries of the literary and cultural… More
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I was just live on CNN talking about the ban on Ruby Bridges at North Shore Elementary in dictator DeSantis’s Florida. She was over my shoulder the whole time.
"It's an overreaction but it's not surprising." "Ruby Bridges" screenwriter @toniannjohnson reacts to a parent complaining the film teaches racial slurs and calls for it not to be shown in younger students’ classrooms