The Zinn Education Project and the African American Policy Forum collaborated on an installation on banned books at the SXSW international festival in Austin from March 10–13, 2023. It was an effective way to raise awareness about the threats to education and issue a call to action with thousands of visitors to this popular, annual […]
Create a Banned Books Pop-Up Display
The Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) collaborated on an installation and panel on banned books at SXSW in Austin. It was so popular that the Zinn Education Project is now offering a guide for anyone to create a Teach Banned Books pop-up display of their own that can be […]
Banned Books Week 2022
Over the last two years libraries and schools have faced an unprecedented number of bids to have books banned. As Jonna Perrillo writes in the Washington Post, these book bans may be even more dangerous than those of the past. The most frequently challenged books are ones that students are reading on their own accord, even if they are accessing them through […]