{"id":37915,"date":"2013-09-25T09:58:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37915"},"modified":"2013-09-25T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:58:17","slug":"open-your-mind-read-a-banned-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/09\/25\/open-your-mind-read-a-banned-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Your Mind &#8211; Read a Banned Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130925Uprising\/2013_09_25_banned_books.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130925Uprising\/2013_09_25_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/banned_books.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Can you guess what the Merriam Webster Dictionary, Invisible Man, The Words of Cesar Chavez and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn all have in common? They were all books that were banned at some point in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>This week we celebrate Banned Books Week which was launched in 1982 by the American Library Association. In case you thought that book banning was an archaic, medieval practice, it turns out that just last year the Library Association\u2019s Office of Intellectual Freedom received 464 challenges to various books. One of the most challenged titles was the children\u2019s book, Captain Underpants, followed by The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.<\/p>\n<p>Books are banned by a variety of institutions for many different reasons. Ralph Ellison\u2019s Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953, was very recently removed from all school libraries in Randolph County, North Carolina. The school board voted 5 to 2 to remove the title after reading a parent\u2019s 12 page letter of complaint against it.<\/p>\n<p>But many books are banned simply because they are too politically radical. In Tuscon, Arizona the school board removed all books which dealt with Chicano or Mexican American history. And in Alabama, Republican State Senator Bill Holtzclaw is calling for a ban on Toni Morrison\u2019s Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Bluest Eye.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Deputy Director in the American Library Association\u2019s Office for Intellectual Freedom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bannedbooksweek.org\">www.bannedbooksweek.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you guess what the Merriam Webster Dictionary, Invisible Man, The Words of Cesar Chavez and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn all have in common? They were all books that were banned at some point in the United States. This week we celebrate Banned Books Week which was launched in 1982 by the American Library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37918,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37915\/revisions\/37918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}