Banned & Challenged Books by BIPOC
The following books that we are highlighting today have all been banned by various prison systems across the United States. Censorship is an ongoing issue in prisons. Limiting and controlling access to what one can read in any place is never right. Read more about the impact of censorship in prisons
The Inheritance Trilogy, N.K. Jemison (2014) BK 1 - Kansas Dept of Corrections … no reason given….
Kindred, Octavia Butler (1979) - North Carolina Department of Public SafetyDisapproved Publications Report (2019) no reason given
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) and The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006)by Barack Obama - At one federal prison in Colorado, officials stopped a prisoner receiving Barack Obama’s two memoirs, calling the books “potentially detrimental to national security”. This decision was later reversed.
No censorship should be tolerated. Read a banned book. Remember even though the library stacks are closed you can still get and check out a book.
