Tue 9/27 @ 6:30PM
Join the ACLU of Ohio and Karamu House for Word Warriors: Banned Brilliance of African American Authors and celebrate banned books. Community leaders will read passages of selected works, woven together w/ inspiring commentary.
The scoop: “Education is power. The fight for educational equality has been an ever-evolving struggle. Many youth of color continue to be segregated in crowded and under-funded schools or pushed into the juvenile justice system. Meanwhile, books by African American authors that highlight inequality have been banned or challenged in many libraries, classrooms, and communities, often because of concerns that they will ‘inspire racial tensions.'”