Celebration of Banned Books in Raleigh, North Carolina
Journalism, Justice, and Activism at Greensboro Bound
PEN Across America Piedmont Region Open House
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[VIRTUAL] Dear 2020: A Virtual Spoken Word and Poetry Performance
[VIRTUAL] Black Voices, Vibrant Southern Cities
Bookstores Across America, Vol. Two: A Roundup of Ways to Support Indie Bookstores
With independent bookstores forced to shut their doors due to the global pandemic, we reached out to booksellers to ask them how readers can support their favorite stores while… More
Health, Housing, and Hurricane Recovery in Robeson County
[POSTPONED] Knowing the News: An Interactive Media Literacy Workshop – Greensboro
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Powerful thread on how educational censorship infringes on critical thinking about the past. https://twitter.com/JackieGardina/status/1619428644010733568
🧵 Students retain their #FirstAmendment rights in schools. In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District... the U.S. Supreme Court held that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
Author @haleshannon spoke about how books help teach children empathy at a #LetUtahRead event on January 25.
But this also happened. 🧵