PART 24: AT THE REQUEST OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORS & JOURNALISTS, MORE FROM FORMER NY TIMES BARI WEISS ON MAUD MARON, BOOK BANNING, OF MICE & MEN, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, AND SO MUCH MORE

One of our most popular series here at Everything Croton.....and now....More follow-up ARTICLES, VIDEOS....

#1--A WITCH TRAIL AT THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY--BARI WEISS--If you google “bleeding heart liberal,” Maud Maron might well turn up as the first hit. Every cause liberals are supposed to fight for, every group they are supposed to champion, every candidate they are supposed to support — well, that was Maron’s not so atypical life and career. Until recently.  MORE HERE.

#2--NEWSWEEK, BOOK BANNING, Middle and high school English teachers in the Burbank Unified School District received the news during a virtual meeting on September 9. Until further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include on their curriculum Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Theodore Taylor's The Cay and Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. MORE AT https://www.newsweek.com/kill-mockingbird-other-books-banned-california-schools-over-racism-concerns-1547241

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PART 23: AT THE REQUEST OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORS & JOURNALISTS, FOR THOSE FOLLOWING THE ARTIST DE WAHLS, JK ROWLING, STANDING UP TO GENDER IDEALOGUES, MORE FUN FROM THE BABYLON BEE, AND BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY GOES FULL ORWELL SAYS PICNIC AND OTHER WORDS ARE OPPRESSIVE, WARNS STUDENTS https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/06/part-23-at-request-of-our-local-authors.html