Perhaps the most visibly upset person this week about the controversy surrounding a poem displayed at the downtown Aurora Public Library is the person whose name is above the front door. Gina Santori ...
I read the poem. And I do see the satire artist George Miller, a professor at Lewis University, was aiming for in the display at the Aurora Public Library that has garnered so much controversy since ...
When the Folger Shakespeare Library began planning its $72 million renovation—set to be completed next year—one goal was to “help visitors transition from the official world of Capitol Hill to ...
The Aurora Public Library is facing criticism for displaying and subsequently removing a poem some have labeled as hate speech that condones violence against Muslim women. The poem, "Hijab Means Jihad ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he “had nothing to do with” a poem recently being moved from an elementary school library to a middle school library. “This is some book of poems. I never ...
There have likely been plenty of "left-behinds" at Johns Hopkins University's Sheridan Libraries. As high-traffic areas for students, the occasional J-card or laptop cord could be unintentionally left ...
The poem “The Hill We Cimb,” written by Amanda Gorman and read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, was challenged in March by a parent at a South Florida school, resulting in the school ...
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BOSTON - The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum has obtained the original version of the poem that Robert Frost prepared for the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, but never read in its entirety because ...
In March, a parent of students at the Bob Graham Education Center, a school in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, filed a complaint about "The Hill We Climb," a poem written by Amanda Gorman and read at ...
Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson has written a poem in protest at planned library closures. The Gruffalo author, who was awarded the MBE last year, has written the poem to mark National Libraries ...
SEYMOUR, Ind. — A federal judge ruled a library in Seymour, Indiana violated a man's constitutional rights after banning him for life from a library after he left an anti-Trump poem. In November 2020, ...