The three-time Grammy-winning singer announced her collaboration with the national free speech organization PEN America during an Instagram Live with Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in the U.S. Pink will also work with bookseller Books & Books to distribute four books from PEN America’s Index of Banned Books: Todd Parr’s “The Family Book,” Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb,” Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” and Stacia Deutsch’s “Girls Who Code.”

Florida leads the country in book bans. In a study during the 2022 to 2023 school year, PEN America recorded more than 3,300 book bans across the U.S., a 33% jump from the previous school year.

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    8 months ago

    They say that history is written by the victors.

    But what the idiots in charge of Florida, Texas, et al. forget is that it can only be written by people who have the ability to write.

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      8 months ago

      The “idiots” leading those places are usually educated so they can write the narrative to keep the real idiots uneducated so they’ll keep voting them in