Youth-led activist group Voters of Tomorrow plans on distributing hundreds of copies of Toni Morrison’s 'Beloved' and Art Spiegelman’s 'Maus' to students in Texas and Virginia.
The graphic novel by Art Spiegelman uses animal characters to chronicle the author's parents' story of survival in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust.Youth-led activist group Voters of Tomorrow plans on distributing hundreds of copies of Toni Morrison’s"Beloved" andto students in Texas and Virginia.
"There are people who would rather not have conversations around these books because they address legacies of racism and fascism that are still alive today," said Maya Mackey, the leader of Voters of Tomorrow's Texas chapter, who will be distributing books in Texas."In order to have a truly educated society and democracy, we need to have conversations around books like these.
In Virginia, some parents backed a bill in response to the"explicit" content shown in the book, that would allow parents to have a say in what their children read in school and allow them to choose alternatives, according to an advertisement from Gov. Glenn Youngkin's gubernatorial campaign in October. It was not successfully banned, since theIn November, Texas officials, including Gov. Greg Abbott and state Rep.
The banning of these books has piqued interest in their contents; Just days after a Tennessee school district made national headlines for banning"Maus,"MORE: Authors of color speak out against efforts to ban books on race
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