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"'Higher Ground,'... tells the tale of middle-schoolers who face and overcome labeling, bullying and harassment by fellow students." [http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianextra/2008/02/drama_floods_over_higher_groun.html] +
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"'Rockstar' is the journey of a musician who leaves his happy life to achieve success as a singer." [http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/bollywood-film-rockstar-disappoints-tibetan-youth/] In one scene, a free Tibet flag is waved. +
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"1972 - Ohio - Strongsville School Board voted to be withdrawn from the school libraries. Overturned in 1976 by U.S. District Court in Minarcini Vs. Strongsville City School District
1982 - New Hampshire - Challenged at Merrimack High School" +
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"A Child Called 'It'" is an autobiography of a child growing up under an abusive, alcoholic mother. +
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"According to one of the board's press releases, the books were 'anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semetic sic and just plain filthy.' The anti-Semetic charge was a reference to Malamud." +
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"Allah, Liberty and Love shows all of us how to reconcile faith and freedom in a world seething with repressive dogmas. Irshad Manji’s key teaching is “moral courage,” the willingness to speak up when everyone else wants to shut you up. This book is the ultimate guide to becoming a gutsy global citizen." [https://www.irshadmanji.com/Allah-Liberty-And-Love] +
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"Among the Western acts, Lady Gaga has six banned tracks: The Edge of Glory, Hair, Marry the Night, Americano, Judas and Bloody Mary. Beyonce's Run the World (Girls) has also been outlawed as well as Katy Perry's Last Friday Night, which has lyrics about a menage a trois." +
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"Beloved" by Toni Morrison is the tale of Sethe, an ex-slave living with her daughter Denver in the Reconstruction-era South. Sethe is visited by several figures of her past including the ghost of her dead baby. +
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"Blume, 76, is the sort of author who is beloved by her fans, who stretch from the children of today to the adults who read her books when they were growing up, and were astonished at finding a novelist who spoke so clearly, so uncondescendingly, so directly, to their concerns, whether masturbation (Deenie), periods and boobs (Margaret). Judy Blume, tiny and smiley and as warmly open as befits the author of seminal novels about growing up Forever…, and Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret is sitting in a hotel in London and talking about the hate mail she has received. It comes, she says, every time she speaks out on behalf of Planned Parenthood, an American pro‑choice group for mothers." +
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"Buck" is a memoir by MK Asante, published by Random House/Spiegel & Grau. It tells the story of MK's youth growing up in Philadelphia from the perspective of MK as a teenager, navigating the lure of sex, drugs, and violence in the absence of a family ripped apart by incarceration and mental illness. "Buck" received the In The Margins Award and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Autobiography. It also an Alex Award finalist, an award from the American Library Association recognizing adult books that appeal to adolescents. The paperback edition of Buck made the Washington Post Bestseller List in 2014 and 2015. In 2014, Asante received a Sundance Institute Feature Film Program Grant to write and direct a movie adaptation of "Buck". +
"Burqavaganza" is a satirical play that mocks Pakistani radical muslims, as well as the burqa: religious attire that completely covers a woman's body. Every character in the play, male and female, wears a burqa, which is meant to be an allegory for hypocrisy. +
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"Cube Venice" is a 50-foot sculpture designed specifically for display at the Venice Biennale art festival. Gregor Schneider was inspired by the Kaaba, the central structure at the Muslim holy site of Mecca, to design a large black cube for display in a public square. The artist has called the Kaaba "one of the most fascinating and beautiful buildings of in the history of mankind."
Of "Cube Venice," Schneider said, "The box summons us all, it allows me to look past the critical reporting and to call on the public, something I didn’t have to do before. It challenges Muslims, which didn't know this way of repproachement before, and it shows something to the visitors of the western world they have never seen before. In the history of Islam Abraham/Ibrahim is the constructor of the Kaaba. All three Monotheistic religions can identify with this building very well." +
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"DETROIT, May 22— 'Slaughter‐House Five,' the 1969 novel by Kurt Vonne gut Jr., has been banned from the suggested reading list of an elective high school literature course in the sub urban Rochester school district" +
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"Different Seasons" is a collection of novellas by Stephen King. The works depart from King's signature horror style, and include texts that were later turned into the movies "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Stand by Me". +
"Down in Mississippi" takes place in 1964 and tells the story of student activists who travel to Mississippi to register black voters. The play begins with a white character repeatedly spewing racial slurs and threats at a Black man while the latter helps register other Black citizens to vote. The university had cautioned potential audience members that they should expect to hear vulgar and offensive language. +
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"Dylan's planned tour of east Asia later this month has been called off after Chinese officials refused permission for him to play in Beijing and Shanghai, his local promoters said." +
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"End of Texas School's Book Ban Doesn't Mark the Last Chapter : The other books were “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” by Sherman Alexie; “Song of Solomon,” by Toni Morrison" +
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"Even before its May 1924 premiere, the play made headlines. Reporting that a white actress would appear alongside a black actor — and that she would kiss his hand — newspapers warned of race riots." +
"Everyone Loves a Parade!" mural, completed in 2012 by Canadian muralist Pierre Hardy, was intended to commemorate French explorer Samuel de Champlain’s arrival in the region more than 400 years ago as well as the progression of time along Church Street, where the mural was displayed. It has been criticized as racist for its lack of inclusion of the Abenaki tribe and people of color. +
