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The city of Apopka, in Orange County, will soon have its first ever Little Free Diverse Library where all the books feature LGBTQ and Black and brown characters.
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Thousands of educators protested Florida book-banning policies outside of the Orange County Convention Center, in Orlando, for the Freedom to Learn rally during the National Education Association’s Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly.
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"The Immeasurable Depth of You" by Maria Ingrande Mora has been called a queer supernatural coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Florida mangroves.
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Brooke Simmons, of St. Thomas Aquinas and Stephanie Balderas of Coral Park Senior High School, won the Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald Silver Knight award.
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Marvin Dunn, an authority on race in America, discusses what it was like to grow up in Florida during segregation. A Florida law bans his books on Black history in classrooms.
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A Miami-Dade County School Board member says he's quoting from Gorman's poem "The Hill We Climb" in every graduation speech he gives — after a school restricted access to the poem for elementary students.
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So far this school year, there have been more book bans in Florida than almost any other state, according to an analysis by the free expression advocacy group PEN America. The former president of the state's library association has acknowledged that advocates for intellectual freedom are "being out-organized."
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Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz says local officials acted properly when they decided to restrict elementary students at a public school in Miami-Dade County from reading the poem recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The move came after a parent claimed the poem was 'indoctrinating' students.
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The comments came after Republican state Rep. Chip LaMarca called out the Broward County Library for being too political.
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Publisher Penguin Random House and PEN America have sued the Escambia County School District over its removal of books about race and LGBTQ+ identities.
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In a lifetime of amazing plot twists, Judy Blume is enjoying another at age 85. For the first time, one of her books has been adapted into a major Hollywood film.
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Between July and December 2022, the free speech advocacy group PEN America reports Florida school districts banned 357 titles.