Theater video tags: George M. Johnson

An Author’s Family Stops a Book Ban

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“Freedom of expression is everything.” In this PEN America video, family members of George M. Johnson read and reflect on a letter from the author in response to a call to ban their book, All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), and other books from a library in New Jersey, just miles from where Johnson grew up.

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Creative Nonfiction
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George M. Johnson
All Boys Aren't Blue
PEN America
book banning
banned books
2023

George M. Johnson on James Baldwin’s Legacy

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“As someone who is now a part of the next generation of Black queer writing, I pull a lot from what James Baldwin stood for,” says George M. Johnson, author of All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), in this video for GLAAD’s NEON series. Johnson, whose book has been banned from school libraries, is the 2022 honorary chair of Banned Books Week.

Genre: 
Creative Nonfiction
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George M. Johnson
All Boys Aren't Blue
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2020
GLAAD
James Baldwin
September/October 2022
Banned Books Week
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