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 ...
Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin’ gets done and where, if you lost your mind, you can find it there.
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
This house is domestic, safe for take-off. Nooks, books, at the window the necessary wolf. The mind opening meets his stare and worries at its own thirst. A boy struts in, the man you'll marry. The ...
SEYMOUR, Ind. (WAVE) - A federal judge ruled that a man had his rights violated after a Jackson County library banned him for leaving an anti-Trump poem at its circulation desk. According to court ...