Last year saw an unprecedented number of attempts to censor or ban books in public libraries, schools and universities, says the American Library Association. The most targeted books including, “Gender Queer,” and “Lawn Boy,” were by or about Black or LGBTQ persons. Conservative activists and parental rights groups organized book challenges.
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When Ben Schachter and Andrew Julo conceived of the exhibit two years ago, neither of the academics considered their efforts particularly prescient. Yet, as recent weeks have demonstrated, the time for Jewish graphic novels is now
Within weeks of a Tennessee school district moving to ban "Maus," a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel depicting the horrors of the Holocaust, readers are propelling it to the top of