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Highlights from the 2021 Latinx Children's Literature Conference By Gnesis Villar | Mar 11, 2021 On March 6, the Center for Children’s Literature at Bank Street College of Education in New York City hosted a virtual mini-conference on Latinx children’s literature. The conference’s third edition focused on Mexican American themes and featured David Bowles as the keynote speaker, who is the recipient of the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee’s 2019 Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry for They Call Me Güero and two Pura Belpré Honors. ‘Whole Neighborhoods Insi...

Because this is timely and important news, we are posting the uncondensed front-page article from American Free Press Issue 45&46, which is being mailed out today. If you are an AFP Online subscriber, you’ll be able to log in and read the paper this weekend, but as an AFP print subscriber, you may not receive the paper until after the election. We feel it is important to put this news out today! Please help AFP get this material in front of more Americans by forwarding this article to others. Also in this week’s paper is the full, 16-page AFP 2020-21 Book & Video Catalog, also linked wit...

After President-elect Joe Biden backed off his promise to quickly end the Trump administration’s border policies, saying current restrictions are necessary to deter large numbers of asylum seekers, Jewish groups who came together to fight those restrictions are re-emphasizing the importance of their mission. “Biden needs to address the human rights abuses created by Trump policies with the same urgency with which Trump unleashed them,” said Alyssa Rubin, campaign director for Never Again Action, an activist group that came to prominence with a series of protests against Immigration and ...

“Why?” It was an understandable question from the hiring team at Never Again Action: “Why are you interested in this job?” The Jewish-led movement fighting the U.S.’s cruel immigration policies is less than two years old; the salary they were offering me to be their new press director was a fraction of my last one. And I’m not even Jewish. When our government rips families apart and puts children in cages and the president dehumanizes them as an “infestation,” alarm bells go off. People of all backgrounds and faiths are (or ought to be) outraged. And Jewish people in particu...