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An Author’s Family Stops a Book Ban

The Resistance: How George M. Johnson’s Family Stopped a Book Ban

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

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