Banned Books Week: Censorship, Our Children and More

September 24, 2013 – Hour 1

Have you ever read Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved? Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner? Captain Underpants? Then you have read a banned book!

Tuesday morning we observe Banned Books Week, a week celebrating the freedom to read. Our guests include:

Dr. Carla Hayden, Chief Executive Officer of the Enoch Pratt Free Library;
Dr. Barbara Jones, Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association;
David Rocah, Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Maryland;
and Christa Daring, publicist at AK Press and collective member at Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffeehouse.

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