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Published two and a half years ago, the book “Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi is described as an “exploration of race and racism”.
Jason Reynolds, the co-author of "Stamped", will speak in Pickens County on May 5. The county's school board banned that book from schools last October.
The challenges targeted 144 books, a majority of which were about issues related to race, gender or sexual identity. “Stamped,” the book at the center of the Pickens lawsuit, was the second ...
“The Board simply voted to remove a book because it contained ideas about racism and America that the all-white Board didn’t like,” the lawsuit filed by a group of parents and the NAACP says.
Every voting member on the New Hanover County Schools curriculum committee recommended reinstating a banned book’s ...
The New Hanover County Board of Education made its curriculum ban on a book permanent Tuesday, defying a district committee, ...
Last Friday, the New Hanover County Board of Education voted 4-3 to temporarily remove the book, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, written by Jason Reynolds, adapted from the work of Ibram X ...
The book and documentary’s title, Stamped from the Beginning, ... Of the banned books, 30% feature people of color or topics of race, while 26% include LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
“The Board simply voted to remove a book because it contained ideas about racism and America that the all-white Board didn’t like,” the lawsuit filed by a group of parents and the NAACP says.
Last Friday, the New Hanover County Board of Education voted 4-3 to temporarily remove the book, "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You," written by Jason Reynolds, adapted from the work of Ibram X ...