Let’s Get Everyone to Read Maus

February 2, 2022 R. Wolf Baldassarro 0

It has become increasingly evident that the Banned Books Awareness column must rise and once again light the darkness of censorship.As most readers are aware by now, the award-winning graphic novel, Maus, has been at the center of a massive censorship effort in McMinn County, Tennessee.I was contacted today by […]

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Can you pass this discriminatory voting literacy test?

August 24, 2020 R. Wolf Baldassarro 0

The literal tests were intentionally complicated, confusing if not nearly impossible to pass. Whites were rarely required to take the tests, and if they were, they were “passed” by poll administrators.  To make matters worse, the literacy tests often consisted of more than 30 questions and had to be taken […]

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China clears out ‘illegal’ books

July 10, 2020 R. Wolf Baldassarro 0

As schools reopened in China after the COVID-19 outbreak, they have thrown themselves into a nationwide exercise to remove books deemed politically incorrect. China clears out ‘illegal’ books https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB16wNF2?m=en-us