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For those of you who were moved by our NBC News coverage of Dr. James Whitfield, the Black principal falsely accused of spreading CRT in a Texas district, read this update below. His story continues.

Important coverage from Madison on censorship in South Carolina -- 🆘on new state regulation moving forward that will lead to mass book banning ACLU of South Carolina Freedom to Read SC

8 Day Before the Runoff campaign finance reports are due to the TEC today. It’s the first glimpse behind the money curtain in any of these State level runoffs since February 24th.

My site will update tomorrow after TEC updates things #txlege
Link here: seeitnameitfightit.com

🧵 IN NEED OF YOUR SUPPORT - YOU’LL WANT TO READ THIS
1/ Well…here we go again. I’ve tried to move on from the madness of the last several years, leaving the drama with my former district behind and focusing on healing. But recent developments show the fight must press on.

“Texas is no stranger to book bans or censoring other educational content areas or materials. The idea that we’re redacting chapters from state-approved textbooks is almost unheard of. It’s so outlandish.” PEN America Kasey Meehan

Some Texas public school boards are voting to “turn off” entire chapters and “units” of TEKS aligned, SBOE approved textbooks.

Topics include:

❌ Climate change
❌ Vaccine efficacy
❌ Inclusive teaching practices
❌ Evolution
…and more…

This was never about library books.

This week, I was at a school giving a talk on FINALLY HEARD and I asked the kids how many of their parents are on their phones during dinner—almost every kid’s hand went up. 😳 These kids were tired of competing against a phone, and I don’t blame them! It’s impossible! So here is

FOLLOW Buttered Jorts (fka kelly jensen) 🐱🐰 and READ her. There is nobody who knows more about the national scope and breadth.

Sad and terrible.

🧵 As this year’s annual Literary Gala begins, we wish unfair wages were HISTORY at PEN. (1/9)

The Carroll school board in Southlake, Texas — the district at the center of my new book, “They Came for the Schools” — voted last night to authorize the Alliance Defending Freedom to sue on its behalf to stop the Biden Administration from extending federal civil rights

Minnesota's anti-book ban bill is on the governor's desk. When signed, it goes into effect immediately and will protect public library collections from being targeted, as well as codify the importance of library professionals statewide: bookriot.com/minnesota-bill…

This this this this this.

In answer to our annual call for poems
on this year's theme of HOPE
we were blown away by the sheer magnitude and range of work we received from young #poets .

We couldn't publish them all
but here are 9 moving submissions:

diverseverse.com/blog/2024-winn…

#DiverseVerse #diverseverse

'While we come from different backgrounds, we have some important things in common. We are all Alabamians, through and through. This is our home.'

Read why we're suing the Prattville library board:alreporter.com/2024/05/14/opi…

Happy 10th anniversary We Need Diverse Books! For their fundraiser, I'm donating a virtual author visit (for classroom, school, no size limit). e.givesmart.com/events/Bu3/i/_…

This is the way.
PEN America ALA OIF National Coalition Against Censorship

💯 agreed.

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