DoSomething Uncensored Scholarship – Aug 31
Posted by DoSomething.org on August 8, 2023
Read a banned book from our list to celebrate diverse perspectives and expand your cultural awareness. You could earn a $1,000 scholarship!
Banning books, a harmful and exclusionary practice, occurs when individuals, government officials, or even school administrators, remove books from libraries, reading lists, or even bookshelves because they object to their content, ideas, or themes.
When certain perspectives are eliminated from a student’s literary repertoire, their access to inclusive and representative text is hindered. Last year, more than 1,600 books were banned in over 5,000 schools, with most bans targeting titles related to race and racism and the LGBTQIA+ community.
Representation matters. And reading books by or about people from historically underrepresented groups builds cross-cultural empathy.
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