Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley’s Roots under 2022 state law
With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves
A Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
Knox county schools (KCS) took that step under a state law that has disappeared hundreds of titles from school libraries and alarmed advocates of free expression.
Think about it: a Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. That speaks volumes.
Alex Haley has been pushing this agenda for a while now.
So the bottom line is knox county schools (KCS) took that step under a state law that has disappeared hundreds of titles from school libraries and alarmed advocates of free expression. Wonder how this will land.
In other words a Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. Curious to see how this develops.
In other words with third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library. Curious to see how this develops.
Think about it: knox county schools (KCS) took that step under a state law that has disappeared hundreds of titles from school libraries and alarmed advocates of free expression. That speaks volumes.
Reading that with third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library — hard to argue with the logic there.
In other words knox county schools (KCS) took that step under a state law that has disappeared hundreds of titles from school libraries and alarmed advocates of free expression. Curious to see how this develops.
The detail about a Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade is something people should sit with.
The detail about with third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library is something people should sit with.