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Children's book authors add Escambia County to lawsuit over banned title

A First Amendment fight about access in school libraries to the children’s book “And Tango Makes Three” has expanded to include the Escambia County school system.

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Panel discusses censorship, consequences

Amid debates over access to library materials and topics discussed in school classrooms, the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site hosted a panel discussion on Saturday titled "The Impact of Banning Books."

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Velshi

it's your verizon. >> okay, if your house kool-aid arkansas, you cannot shake the advanced placement african american studies course. there is a catch. you will not earn any ap credit for. it creates a massive disincentive to take the course for a busy high school student was hoping to get into increasingly competitive colleges. the arkansas state education department abruptly remove the credit for the ap glass saying, quote, the department encourages the teaching of all american history and supports rigorous courses not based on opinions or indoctrination, and quote. this move comes months after the governor, sarah huckabee sanders signed bills banning, quote, indoctrination and critical race theory, and quote, in schools. this is the latest offense in the era of banning books,

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Yasmin Vossoughian Reports

what it is like an offer to the american public. i want people to be really clear about something. the republican party has no agenda, other than cruelty. they have no policies other than oppress other people and will back out democracy. whether it is donald trump at the top of the ticket, ron desantis, or mike pence, they are all about banning books, silencing the press, and oppressing other marginalized groups. that is what their policies are. they are not offering anything to america, they are just trying to take away. that is what you're going to hear on that debate stage. whether or not donald trump is there are not. it is going to be all of those people saying similar things about destroying our democracy. >> susie and i think this is interesting. the leaked desantis memo. let me read a part of it for. he is the memo calls under santas to defend trump for christie's attack it also urges desantis to convey himself as a leader best position to carry the torch of trump-ism forward all of that aside, i will be curious to hear rhonda santiff

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FOX Friends First

>> carley: california gavin newsom is bashing moms for liberty, the parents group fighting against wokeness, banning books, flooding school board with far right policy and cheering for hitler. i started this campaign to push back against radical republicans. >> todd: why is that in quotes? the co-founder of moms for liberty joins us now. what was your reaction when you saw that ad? saying you cheered for hitler? >> you know, i was shocked, but

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CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta

elected her. he's an autocrat and an authoritarian and he doesn't understand following the rule of law and making sure that people have the ability to elect -- to select elected officials based on their point of view and he doesn't get to replace their point of view and that is obviously the kind of president he would be. he's clearly been a horrendous governor, banning books, he's tried to -- he's adopted an education program for african american history focused on sugging that slavery have some benefits and that has to be taught and caused chaos and confusion and banning a.p. psych yolg and -- psych yolg and that is last thing this country needs. >> wooel have to leave it there. as always, a lot going on in florida. we could go through more issues than we have time for. congresswoman debbie wassermann

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Ayman

crash crunch, excuse me. >> well, i think the simple truth is that donald trump runs the republican party like he runs the american economy. he drives it off a clip. the trump and maga movement has been so focused on denying the results of the last election, banning books, ripping away fundamental freedoms, when his control over their own bodies, that they have embedded assemble -- war with the gop. the result being at the grassroots level, republicans are spending more time attacking each other and attacking our basic freedoms and they are thinking about how to deliver for the american public where the basic fundraising. the result of that, in a state like wisconsin, is that we have seen county republican parties in open revolt against the state white party because they refused to decertify the 2020 election retroactively. we have seen those of no confidence that our state party conventions introduced, they see republican party leaders. it all comes back to trump.

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