Video: Black & Banned! Students, Faculty gather at Bird Library to read aloud from banned and challenged books

Joan Bryant, associate professor of African American studies, points to a simple alphabet book. “It’s a children’s book written in Swahili.

It was banned because it was, at the time, thought to be dismissive of American culture,” she explains. “When you see the list of books that have been challenged or banned, and the reasons, it’s curious to say the least.”

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