The Tuscaloosa County senior, who led a walkout earlier this month to bring attention to racism at the school and alleged censorship of a Black History Month student performance, said she was frustrated with how school leaders treated her in the aftermath.
Many of the picture books yanked from school shelves tell the true stories of civil rights or LGBTQ experiences while some are simply "lighthearted fiction about animals or babies."
College Board denies trimming AP African American Studies curriculum based on Florida's complaints and says it never even received any formal feedback from the state's education officials.
Black baseball legends Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, and Roberto Clemente—and their triumphs in the face of racism—are apparently not appropriate reading for students in one large Florida district.
There were at least 2,532 individual instances of book banning tracked from July 2021 to June 2022, which impacted 1,648 titles, according to anti-censorship advocacy group PEN America. The vast majority of these titles were written by or about LGBTQ people or people of color.
Dictating what intellectual discussions can and cannot take place in the classroom is driving teachers out and stalling academic advancement, according to a new report.
