May 2015 – Banned Books Awareness

Banned Books Awareness: Crossing the Free Speech Line

May 31, 2015 R. Wolf Baldassarro 1

Spend enough time online and you’ll discover that trolls lurk outside of fairy tales and Lower Michigan. There comes a time, though, when some of these internet trolls don’t just cross the line of appropriateness or maturity, they jump it waving a middle finger at the world. For anyone who […]

Banned Books Awareness: “Index Librorum Prohibitorum”

May 25, 2015 R. Wolf Baldassarro 1

The Angelica Library, in Rome, is a public library located next to the church of Sant’Agostino. Among its numerous shelves of original and fragile manuscripts dating back centuries exists a very important collection that the Catholic Church hid from public view since 1559- the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or List of […]

Banned Books Awareness

Promoting literacy and the freedom to read.

Month: May 2015