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Banned Books Week 2010: 10 Selections From This Year's List
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept 27) -- To commemorate what it calls "Banned Books Week," the American Library Association is encouraging citizens to read a work of literature that has either been banned or restricted in some fashion. Over the years, authors ranging from Mark Twain to William Faulkner to J.K. Rowling have all had their works singled out as being unworthy or inappropriate for general consumption, and the ALA keeps a running tally. Surge Desk has some of the highlights from the 2009-2010 list. 1. Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary Author: Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff Where complaint was made: ...
Banned Book Week 2010: From Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project to Quran Burning
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 27) -- Just how dangerous is a book? Since 1982, the American Library Association has designated the last week of September as "Banned Books Week" in an effort to draw attention to what the group sees as a central tenet of American freedom: the right read whatever books one chooses. To mark the occasion, the ALA is hosting public events at libraries and bookstores across the country and is encouraging Americans to read titles that have been targeted for removal from libraries and public schools. "Free people read freely," Barbara Jones, the director of the ALA's Office of ...
'The Help': Can a Rich White Woman Write Honestly About Black Servants?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNow marking 18 months on best-seller lists, "The Help," a novel set in Mississippi about the secrets, friendships and hates between black maids and the upper-class white women they serve, has reached the inevitable next rung of success. The book is being filmed in the heart of the Mississippi Delta with an A-list cast including Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney and Viola Davis. Its author, Kathryn Stockett, 41, born in Greenwood, Miss., is white, blonde and rich. Raised and educated in the South, she worked for some years in New York before 9/11, but now lives with her husband and daughter in ...
Obama's a Woman? Bill Clinton's Black? Why Can't We Be Ourselves?
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailySpit out your coffee at breakfast much? The headline on Kathleen Parker's Washington Post column on Wednesday is at least worth a double take: "Obama: Our first female president." She judges the president's communication style as passive, conciliatory -- displaying "tropes of femaleness" -- not at all what Americans want in a commander-in-chief. Agree or not, I usually appreciate the Pulitzer winner's particular take on things. She is an individual. So it surprised me how much she reverts to conventional thinking on gender and race roles in her essay. Americans prefer assertive, tough, ...
Toni Morrison's New 'Beloved'
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyThe Nobel Prize-winning author that had crowned Bill Clinton "The First Black President", has decided to support Barack Obama's bid for the presidency. In a personal letter to Sen. Obama, Ms. Morrison writes: In addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don't see in other candidates. That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. ...
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