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A school board in Alaska removes 5 widely acclaimed novels from the district's classrooms.

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Alaska school board pulls ‘Great Gatsby’ from curriculum

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Bookstores are fielding requests for works removed from Mat-Su Borough School District classrooms.

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Disney owns the rights to many movies, new and old. While they have the "right" to change a scene, should they?

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Disney Plus' butt cover-up hides a much bigger problem

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Disney deciding to cover a butt in Tom Hanks' 1984 film Splash isn't that big of a deal - but it does exist as part of a bigger problem in a rapidly shifting world that's relying more and more on digital entertainment.

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A family flees NYC as the pandemic hits. Their journey across the country includes a stop in Harrisburg. Join them on a trip they never thought they would have to make.

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Opinion | We Left New York With Clothes, Our Cat and Three Bottles of Disinfectant (Published 2020)

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A graphic short story of my family's coronavirus journey across the country.

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minecraft hosts uncensored library full of banned texts - cnn

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A popular video game has become home to a virtual library where players can lay eyes on censored news articles from around the world.

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Pennsylvanians are asked to wear masks in public; this is not the first time in history. See how today mirrors our past.

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not wearing a mask was illegal in some parts of america. what changed? - cnn

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In the 1918 flu pandemic, not wearing a mask was illegal in some parts of America. What changed?

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In 1918, America adopted mask wearing with a greater vengeance than anywhere else in the world. But a century later, it is Asian countries which have remembered the lessons the US learned.

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Patrick Stewart reads a Shakespearean sonnet a day out loud. He started at #1 and plans to go to #154. He recently read #18- one of my personal favorites.

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Everything you need to know about the flu illness, including symptoms, treatment and prevention.

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One of Shakespeare's "big" tragedies. You can make an easy comparison to Macbeth- characters (their motives, their flaws, their actions/inaction), plot structure (Freytag's Diagram), and themes (what can I/the world learn from the play?).

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The CDC's Pandemic Flu Storybook provides readers with a look at the impact pandemic flu events have had on both survivors and the families and friends of non-survivors. These stories are not folklore, but personal recollections. This collection of stories was first released in 2008 to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic.

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The author of The Hate You Give anticipates her next book to be banned too.

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Angie Thomas-author of the powerful YA novel The Hate U Give that was adapted into the popular film of the same name-has written a third book, Concrete Rose.

The novel, which will be published by HarperCollins on January 12, 2021, takes readers back to Garden Heights 17 years prior to the events of The Hate U Give to tell the story of Maverick Carter, Starr's father. Like her first novel, Thomas says she also expects Concrete Rose to be banned.

Thomas' first book follows the inspirational and heartrending story of Starr, a young black girl pulled between her fancy prep school and her poor black neighborhood. When Starr's childhood friend Khalil is killed by a police officer, her world and that of her community unravels as people rise up in protest. Since The Hate U Give 's release in 2017, Thomas has received global acclaim for her honest prose that gives a voice to young black teens in America and the challenges they face.

Maverick plays a major role in The Hate U Give, and in Concrete Rose, his story takes center stage. The novel tracks Mavericks beginnings as he navigates becoming a father to Starr's older brother, Seven, when he's just 17. Concrete Rose is a fast-paced, moving story about what it means to be a young black man-and father- in America.

"Of all characters who really just stayed with me, Maverick was at the top of that list," Thomas, 31, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview about the book. (See the cover below.) "And what was fascinating to me was once readers started reading The Hate U Give and then when the film came out, he was the character that I was asked about the most."

Thomas was inspired by the stories of young men-and her hope is to inspire them in turn.

"I started talking to young real life Mavericks. Young men who are trying to still find their way and are often written off and seen as troublemakers or this or that," she says. "They're never seen as [having] potential, they're only seen as being at risk. They have stories and they deserve the opportunity to not just grow, they deserve the opportunities to be seen as someone beyond their circumstances."

Keep reading for more from the Angie Thomas interview (which has been edited and condensed).

What are you excited for readers to learn about Maverick and Seven's early years?

The big thing I'm excited for readers to learn about with Maverick, specifically, is that there are things that he has done in his life that his kids don't even know about. I know with people, it's like, "Oh, he's a principal. Well, what's the point? I know that he's going to be okay. He's alive in The Hate U Give." Yeah, but you don't know what he's done. There are so many things that he's done, and the big shift and turns that I couldn't mention in The Hate U Give, that I'm excited for my readers to see. I'm also excited to show this bonding between father and son... So many people assume that black kids, especially black kids in the hood, don't have fathers. And that's a lie. So many of them do.

Can you tell me about how your books have been received, especially by people of color?

The best part of what I do is meet young people who have read my books. Sometimes, it's the first time they've seen a character like themselves... To quote Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, "Books are mirrors, windows, sliding glass doors." And for me to give those kids that mirror, it's an honor to do it. But it also reminds me of how important it is that I give them authentic mirrors. I've never want to give them a distorted view of themselves. I want them to see how amazing and wonderful and beautiful they are as they are, when the world tries to tell them they're either too much or not enough.

Your past books explore racism, gang violence, and police brutality. Do those themes also appear in Concrete Rose?

Absolutely. A thing that I definitely touch on in the novel is the prison system and the fact that Maverick's father is in prison. We get a glimpse into that and we get a glimpse into the issues that come with that. What it means for family, when someone who was a provider, all of a sudden he's gone. He's in the prison system and being used in this modern form of slavery. But I also talk a little bit about police brutality and more so about over-policing a community... Here we are, we're looking at a community almost 20 years before The Hate U Give starts. So many of the things that are happening in The Hate U Give were happening back then. What's going on? What is the systemic issue here that's allowing this cycle to continue?

How has your experience as a black woman in the U.S. influenced your writing?

Being a black woman in this country, it honestly fuels me even more to write my stories as authentically as possible. So often it feels as if my very humanity is challenged. And, if nothing else, that fuels me to rebelliously show through my stories just how human I am. I can honestly say that I've stopped code switching as much in my writing...I've had to adapt to the majority my entire life. You can adapt to these words and these phrases and this culture that I'm infusing into my work, in these 300, 400 or so pages. If you have to get a dictionary or something and figure it out, or [go to] Urban Dictionary to figure it out, that's okay. But you're going to get my true authentic story.

How did Tupac Shakur's "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" influence this book as well as your previous books?

Tupac is probably one of my biggest literary influences. That kind of throws people off when I say that because they're like, "He's a rapper." But he was a writer, he was a poet... There's beauty in this whole idea of walking down the street and seeing a rose growing up out of the concrete in the sidewalk... And that's a metaphor for what so many of our young people are-they're roses in concrete.

The Hate U Give was banned in different schools and areas across the country. Do you expect Concrete Rose to also be banned?

I absolutely do. This is a book about a 17-year-old young man who just found out he's a father...Nobody wants to talk about teen sex, nobody wants to talk about teen pregnancy or teen parents. But he's amongst us every single day and it's something that we cannot ignore. So I absolutely expect it to get banned. I am going to say it, I think it will be banned more so than The Hate U Give was. I really do. It saddens me already, but I'm expecting it. And I'm going to keep writing it and my publisher is still going to publish it. Why? Because there are young people who need this story... Your discomfort is not my problem. My concern is for those young people who need this [book].

The legacy of the Black Power Movement is woven throughout your books. How does this history empower your characters as well as the black community in the U.S.?

I would never put the responsibility of empowering the entire black race on my book, but I hope that young black people pick it up and they walk away feeling empowered. I hope they walk away with a better understanding of themselves... Also, I hope that it gives other readers a better view of what it means to be a black person in America.

I'm a firm believer that empathy is more powerful than sympathy. I would love it if somebody read my books, specifically if they read Concrete Rose, about this young black boy who is heading on the wrong path, and they got a better understanding of him. And it makes them decide to stop clutching their purse extra tight when a young black man walks by them. Now is that absolutely going to happen? Probably not. That's some entitled stuff that they still got to deal with, but if my book can play a role in that, great. More importantly, I just want that young black man, who, when somebody does walk by him and they clutch their purse tighter, I want him to read my book. [Maybe it will make him] feel a little more seen, heard, and understood.

Concrete Rose will be published by HarperCollins on January 12, 2021.

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Areporter for the state capital bureau operatedjointly by two of Florida's largest newspapers was denied access Saturday to a press conference by Gov. Ron DeSantis detailing the state's latest efforts to contain one of the largest outbreaks of thenovel coronavirus in the country.

Mary Ellen Klas, the Herald's bureau chief for the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times Tallahassee Bureau, said she was refused entry into the Capitol in Tallahassee to attend a press briefing by the governor, lieutenant governor, director of emergency management and state surgeon general regarding COVID-19 testing, access to medicine and efforts to prevent New Yorkers from flying into the state.

On Twitter, Klas said a reporter for the News Service of Florida was told that he would be shut out as well if he insisted that Klas be allowed to cover the press conference in person. She posted a video of Meredith Beatrice, a state spokeswoman, explaining that Klas could view the press conference on a state-sponsored public affairs media service that live streams state government events.

"It's available via Florida Channel. We're providing the satellite coordinates," Beatrice said, declining to address Klas' question about who decided she could not attend. "I have nothing else to add."

Klas said later in an interview that Beatrice also told her the state was refusing her access into the Capitol because she had requested "social distancing"at the governor's briefings. Days earlier, Klas asked that the governor's staff help protect reporters by holding Zoom-style video conference press briefings so that questions could be asked without requiring reporters to gather in close proximity.

The top editors of the Herald, Times, el Nuevo Herald, Bradenton Herald, Palm Beach Post, Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel made the same request of DeSantis' office in a March 20 letter. DeSantis' office did not respond, according to Miami Herald President & Publisher/Executive Editor Aminda Marqués González.

"I asked for social distancing. I didn't ask to be excluded," said Klas, who said she tried to attend Saturday's briefing because recent efforts to submit questions in writing had been unsuccessful. "The problem with having this available on a satellite feed is there's no interaction, and we'd already had several days where they weren't answering [our] questions."

A reporter from the Orlando Sentinel was admitted to Saturday's briefing.

Helen Aguirre Ferré, DeSantis' chief spokeswoman, said in an email Saturday that a small group of reporters were invited to attend the briefing in an effort to respond to requests for social distancing. She said she alerted a different reporter of the Herald/Times bureau butdid not explain why Klas was not allowed to attend. Klas was already at the Capitol entrance when Ferré called Lawrence Mower of the Times.

"Every endeavor is made to ensure the public continues to have full access to information as the safety and security of Florida residents is our greatest concern," said Ferré, who'd previously defended the governor's decision to continue holding press briefings at the Capitol, arguing that a majority of reporters wanted to attend in person.

The decision to keep Klas from covering DeSantis' press conference in person drew quick rebuke from the Herald, Times and some state lawmakers, all of whom warned that the state appeared to be limiting access to information during a time of crisis. Pamela Marsh, president of the First Amendment Foundation, an organization promoting the free press, questioned why the governor's office would freeze out a reporter for a newspaper serving readers in the epicenter of the state's coronavirus outbreak.

Miami-Dade and Broward counties have more than 1,800 combined cases of COVID-19.

"The Miami Herald is one of the most important print journalism sources in our state that is largely read in a portion of our state that has a large proportion of the cases," Marsh said. "To not allow a reporter serving the communities of our state to participate deprives the public of information they need to know."

Mark Katches, executive editor of the Tampa Bay Times, said that "by restricting our ability to report and ask questions of his administration, the governor ultimately is penalizing the people of Florida who rely on the Times/Herald bureau for accurate and reliable information during an unprecedented public health crisis."

Marqués, the Herald's executive editor, said "depriving our reporters of access is depriving Floridians, our readers and the governor's constituents."

"A worldwide pandemic is not the time to engage in petty politics," she said. "Florida's revered Sunshine laws were written to prevent actions such as this."

The Herald published an editorial last week that was critical of the governor's leadership during the COVID-19 crisis, which prompted a response from Ferré on Twitter.

"No reporter ever wants to be the story, so this is especially exasperating since I - and the entire newsrooms of both the Herald and Times - have been working without stop for weeks to amplify this story and achieve the same goal as Gov. DeSantis," Klas said, "which is to help keep people safe."

David Smiley is a Florida native (yes, they exist) and veteran of South Florida journalism. He's covered schools, cops and crime, and various city halls, earning awards for stories about municipal pensions and Miami Beach's police department. He became the Miami Herald's political reporter in 2018 and covered the midterm elections and recount.

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A reporter for the state capital bureau operated jointly by two of Florida's largest newspapers was denied access Saturday to a press conference by Gov. Ron DeSantis detailing the state's latest efforts to contain one of the largest outbreaks of the novel coronavirus in the country.

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Practice Free Response Questions from 2018

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Beijing has defended its decision to expel journalists from three major US publications, saying it was responding to "unreasonable oppression" of Chinese journalists in the US, as a diplomatic row escalates between the two countries.

Speaking at a regular press briefing, the foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Beijing had been "compelled" to take countermeasures after Washington imposed restrictions on staff at Chinese state media outlets in the US.

"We urge the US to take off its ideological prejudice, abandon cold war mentality," Geng said. "China is not one to start trouble, but it will not blink if trouble comes. We urge the US side to immediately stop suppressing Chinese media, otherwise the US side will lose even more."

At least 13 journalists will be expelled in what is an unprecedented retaliation against foreign media working in the country. An announcement made just after midnight said all US journalists working for the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal whose credentials were up for renewal this year would have 10 days to turn in their press cards, a measure that effectively bans them from reporting in the country.

China has said it is responding to a US move last month to classify Chinese state media organisations as foreign missions and tighten controls on them. China's foreign ministry said such "unwarranted restrictions" had made work difficult for reporters and subject to "politically motivated oppression".

Hu Xijin, the editor of the state-run tabloid Global Times, on Wednesday warned of more retaliation. "If the two sides go after each other's journalists, American media will suffer more," he wrote on Weibo, pointing out there are 29 US outlets with operations in China, compared with 19 Chinese outlets in the US. "Whether the two sides fight in terms of numbers of people or the number of media outlets, it is the US that will suffer more."

The expulsions come as the US and China attempt to shift blame over the coronavirus outbreak that emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December. As China struggles to return to normal in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, which killed more than 3,000 people in mainland China, it has pushed the idea that the virus may have originated in the US. Donald Trump has continued to call Covid-19 the "Chinese virus".

Analysts said the expulsion of foreign correspondents, many of whom have exposed issues such as re-education camps in Xinjiang or authorities' mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, is indicative of an emboldened Beijing. Last month China expelled three Wall Street Journal reporters.

"This is more about China feeling like it has the capacity to do what it's always wanted to do, which is to limit critical reporting within China," said Natasha Kassam, a research fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney and a former Australian diplomat.

"In one move China can demonstrate its strength to domestic audiences and stir up existing nationalism. It can demonstrate to the US it is happy to race to the bottom in decoupling. It can have a chilling effect on the journalists that remain," she said.

According to a statement from the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC), more journalists may be affected, depending on how broadly China enforces the ban. "Journalists illuminate the world we live in. China, through this action, is dimming itself," it said in a statement.

"By expelling journalists and keeping others in a state of visa uncertainty, China is overtly using its powers in an attempt to influence overseas news coverage, by punishing those who publish information authorities see as unfavourable and wish to keep quiet."

Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, said China had made a "grave mistake" and urged the two governments to resolve the dispute quickly. "We strongly condemn the decision of the Chinese authorities to expel American journalists, an action that is especially irresponsible at a time when the world needs the free and open flow of credible information about the coronavirus pandemic," he said.

Matt Murray, the Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief, called it an "unprecedented attack on freedom of the press" at a time of crisis. "Trusted news reporting from and about China has never been more important. We oppose government interference with a free press anywhere in the world. Our commitment to reporting fully and deeply on China is unchanged."

The Washington Post's executive editor, Marty Baron, said: "We unequivocally condemn any action by China to expel US reporters. The Chinese government's decision is particularly regrettable because it comes in the midst of an unprecedented global crisis, when clear and reliable information about the international response to Covid-19 is essential. Severely limiting the flow of that information, which China now seeks to do, only aggravates the situation."

The New York Times newspaper's board said in an editorial that China's crackdown was " an unfortunate echo of the cold war, and it couldn't come at a worse time. The global spread of the coronavirus demands independent and trusted information from the country where the scourge began."

It criticised China's claim to be responding in kind after the US tightened rules on Chinese state media, saying US publishers were not comparable to the organisations that Soviet and Chinese Communist regimes sent abroad. "It is common knowledge that their oversize staffs include spies," it said.

Correspondents facing imminent expulsion expressed their disappointment and frustration at deteriorating reporting conditions.

In an escalation of its previous expulsions, China also declared that the journalists from the three papers would not be allowed to work from Hong Kong or Macau. Legal observers questioned how it would be implemented since Hong Kong's governing Basic Law provides for freedom of the press and freedom of choice of employment.

Charles Mok, a Hong Kong legislator, said the inclusion of Hong Kong in the order was the "death of 'one country, two systems'", the political system of special autonomy under which Hong Kong operates.

The three papers whose staff are being expelled - and two other US outlets, Time and Voice of America - will also be required to "declare in written form information about their staff, finance, operation and real estate in China".﻿

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Here are six of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. The sonnet is always 14 lines long and was the most popular form of poetry in his day. Shakespeare developed his own pattern for rhyming lines with a rhyme scheme of ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG. Thus, the creation of the Shakespearean sonnet.

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Something for everyone-even if you think you don't like poetry. Chances are you do; if you like music, you like poetry. Check it out.

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Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Listen to poets read their poetry; it's better than the voice inside my head reading their words.

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If I Should Have a Daughter

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Have 20-30 minutes and tired of the news? Escape into a short story. "A Cup of Tea" is one of my favorites. Ask yourself, "Who is best at getting what he/she wants while risking the least?" "What motivates each character and what insecurities does each have?"
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Reading Guide-“A Cup of Tea” by Katherine Mansfield

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"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die."
Not exactly a positive outlook to the future, but that's what happens when the plague is part of everyday life. Check out two poems that exude the cavalier attitude.

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