A lawsuit filed by Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, and other major publishing houses alleges that a Florida state law enacted last year has caused hundreds of book removals and is violates First Amendment rights to free speech. Authors John Green, Jodi Picoult, Julia Alvarez, and Angie Thomas also made this complaint, …
Book banning
On June 10th, Arantzazu Zuzene Galdos-Shapiro, a respected eighth-grade English teacher, resigned from her position at W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School. In her resignation letter, Galdos-Shapiro bravely stated that she was leaving to protect her health, which had been gravely affected by the conditions and blatant violation of her rights at school. She painfully …