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AJC-Decatur Festival 2019 Searching For Community And Home Amid Displacement

Searching for Community and Home Amid Displacement

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PEN America at the 2019 AJC-Decatur Book Festival

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In Congressional testimony March 29, PEN America CEO ⁦@SuzanneNossel⁩ warned against tactics “we see in oppressive countries around the world where there is no buffer zone between the hand of the state and what happens on a university campus.” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/03/30/house-republicans-seek-ways-protect-campus-free-speech

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14 books—including Toni Morrison’s Beloved—have been banned from Spotsylvania School Libraries in #Virginia by a superintendent who insists the books he is banning are not being banned. #BannedBooks #FreeTheBooks #FreedomToRead https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/14-books-being-removed-from-spotsylvania-school-libraries/3317248/?_osource=db_npd_nbc_wrc_twt_shr

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