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Los Angeles, Californiaamandagormanbooks.comJoined June 2014
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2 weeks ago my book The Hill We Climb and 3 others were removed from elementary school shelves
@MDCPS
Bob Graham Education Center in Florida. But when they go low we go high. I’ve helped purchase 1,200 copies of these challenged books to be given away for FREE today at 6pm.… Show more
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Books & Books
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June 6th at 6pm show your support for the freedom to read! The Sanctuary for Banned Books @ The Coral Gables Congregational Church is hosting a celebration and book giveaway of 3 of the recently challenged books at the Bob Graham Ed Center, a K-8 school in the MDPS system
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Books & Books
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Our community gathered on June 6th to celebrate books that were recently challenged, and embrace the right to read & think freely. Thanks to our generous partners, and special thanks to
@TheAmandaGorman
who generously donated books for the event! #Freadom
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FREADOM: Miami Embraces Challenged Books
Our community gathered on June 6th to celebrate books that were recently challenged and embrace the right to read and think freely.We were able to hand out c...
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Amanda Gorman
@TheAmandaGorman
These book bans aren’t protecting children, they’re prohibiting them from accessing diverse and excellent literature. Visit pen.org/action to send an e-note directly to decision makers demanding they protect students’ freedom to read 📚✊🏿
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“All it takes is one person, one quickly written complaint to render that book inaccessible for everyone else in that community”: @TheAmandaGorman shares her reaction to her book and three others being restricted at a Florida elementary school.
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“All it takes is one person, one quickly written complaint to render that book inaccessible for everyone else in that community”: @TheAmandaGorman shares her reaction to her book and three others being restricted at a Florida elementary school.
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So happy to see so many children get their free books at our book giveaway poetry event--a
@MDCPS
school may have taken it off the shelf, but we're doing everything we can to make sure these stories of hope, history, and heart keep making it into the hands of these young readers.
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Books & Books
@BooksandBooks
These books matter. The turnout for tonight’s FREADOM event is already incredible! Thank you again to @TheAmandaGorman for your generosity. We’ve already put three incredible books in the hands of so many children.
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An honor to help purchase hundreds copies of these other necessary books that were banned last month. Anyone can now get them for free at the Sanctuary for Banned Books at The Coral Gables Congregational Church at the giveaway tonight 6pm ET. There'll be a poetry reading too,… Show more
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Books & Books
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- The Hill We Climb by @TheAmandaGorman - The ABC’s of Black History by Rio Cortez and Lauren Semmer - Love to Langston by @PoetTonyMedina and @rgcillustration. Copies of these three titles will be given away and we thank Amanda Gorman for her generosity.
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They won't call it a ban. Yet not only has my book been moved, but now elementary schoolers must request a copy from a specialist at its new site AND then also PROVE their reading level before seeing a copy. All these hurdles for a young reader just to access a poem in history… Show more
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PEN America
@PENamerica
It's not a ban, they said. It just on another shelf, they said. But the truth about the ban on @TheAmandaGorman's book—as is often the case with book banners—was something quite different: An elaborate—& daunting—process for elementary school children simply to access a poem. twitter.com/jonfreadom/sta…
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Florida Freedom to Read Project
@FLFreedomRead
“Because we believe that the education should always be meaningful, relevant and connected. And we believe that kids need to be able to make sense of what’s going on in the world.”
@NewRoadsK12
(Not FL’s Governor) Check out their performance:
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300 students gathered in Santa Monica to read Amanda Gorman's poem...
On 26 May 2023, students at New Roads School—the California elementary school Amanda Gorman attended—presented a reading of The Hill We Climb in response to ...
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Florida Freedom to Read Project
@FLFreedomRead
“One of the foundations of education is to develop critical, informed, compassionate citizens because we think that’s fundamental to democracy. And we think that democracy doesn’t work unless children are educated and they understand various perspectives.”
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After Florida bans Amanda Gorman poem, New Roads school rallys in support
Students at New Roads School are rallying around one of their famous Alumni after a poem by Amanda Gorman was banned from a Florida School.
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Amanda Gorman
@TheAmandaGorman
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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Greg Sargent
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Utterly shameless: Ron DeSantis is lashing out at the media for reporting on the removal of the Amanda Gorman book, calling it a "poem hoax." Again, *one single objector* got this poem removed, simply by slapping the label "hate" on it. Just preposterous: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/
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@TheAmandaGorman
I love this! 💛💛
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PEN America
@PENamerica
Happening Now: Students at New Roads School—the #California elementary school @TheAmandaGorman attended—are presenting a reading of The Hill We Climb in response to the removal of the book from school library shelves in Miami-Dade County in #Florida. #IStandWithTheBanned
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National Coalition Against Censorship
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NCAC encourages anyone in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools or Bob Graham Education Center community to immediately contact the school board and demand the appeal of this school-level decision!
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Amanda Gorman
@TheAmandaGorman
So they ban my book from young readers, confuse me with @oprah , fail to specify what parts of my poetry they object to, refuse to read any reviews, and offer no alternatives…Unnecessary #bookbans like these are on the rise, and we must fight back 👊🏿 DONATE here:… Show more
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David Gura
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"I'm not a reader. I'm not a book person." Daily Salinas, who successfully petitioned the Miami-Dade County school district to remove several books, including
@TheAmandaGorman
's "The Hill We Climb," says "she had only read parts" of them.
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The Florida mom who sought to ban Amanda Gorman's poem says she's sorry for promoting the Protocols...
The activist apologized to JTA and to “the Jewish community” for sharing the antisemitic forgery on her Facebook page.
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Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson
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We are barring young people from access to a poem that was read at the most significant moment of our shared democratic American experience. One that was threatened just days before. Because of one parent.
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Amanda Gorman
@TheAmandaGorman
For those claiming my book wasn’t banned, just “aged-up”—The Hill We Climb is an inaugural poem for the world. Relocating it to older age group library shelves by its nature bars younger and equally deserving generations from accessing said moment in history. twitter.com/FLFreedomRead/…
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@TheAmandaGorman
For those claiming my book wasn’t banned, just “aged-up”—The Hill We Climb is an inaugural poem for the world. Relocating it to older age group library shelves by its nature bars younger and equally deserving generations from accessing said moment in history.
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Florida Freedom to Read Project
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.⁦@raeganmiller⁩ said the issue of a book’s age-appropriateness is often used as a loophole to restrict books because of the vague nature of the classification. The same, she said, is happening with books challenged on the grounds of sexual content. latimes.com/entertainment-
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ACLU
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Schools should be fostering growth and the exchange of ideas — not preventing students from learning and understanding different perspectives. These unnecessary book bans join a host of other attempts to silence us. We must fight back.
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Amanda Gorman's Inauguration Poem Banned — Along with 3 Race-Related Books — at a Miami-Area School
'The Hill We Climb,' a now-famous poem written and recited by former national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman, was among four works banned for elementary students in a Florida school following a...
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Florida Freedom to Read Project
@FLFreedomRead
The Hill We Climb is making headlines, but please don’t forget there are three other titles - titles clearly written for elementary school readers - that are restricted too. We need to get The ABCs of Black History, Love to Langston, & Cuban Kids back on K-5 shelves too!
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Jonathan Friedman 📚
@jonfreadom
It's not just @TheAmandaGorman. This book was challenged in Miami Dade county for "CRT and gender ideology" by a single parent, too. The district acknowledged it was written for kids aged 5+, but decided it was inappropriate before 6th grade... 👀 🧵
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Amanda Gorman
@TheAmandaGorman
Thank you so much for standing with me
@luciabaezgeller
! It’s heartwarming to hear a School Board Member from this county defend students’ right to read my poem!
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Lucia Baez-Geller, Miami-Dade School Board
@luciabaezgeller
I am extremely disappointed by the news that the poem, “The Hill We Climb,” by @TheAmandaGorman was removed due to a parent’s complaint. This is a result of the Governor’s divisive rhetoric & political agenda. It is completely unacceptable & our community will not stand for it.
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