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Banned Together:

The Fight Against Censorship

2025-10-05 14:00:00 2025-10-05 16:00:00 America/New_York Banned Together: Join us for this documentary. Rocky River Public Library - Auditorium

Sunday, October 05
2:00pm - 4:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-10-05 14:00:00 2025-10-05 16:00:00 America/New_York Banned Together: Join us for this documentary. Rocky River Public Library - Auditorium

Join us for this documentary.

Banned Together follows three students as they fight to reinstate 97 books suddenly pulled from their school libraries. As they evolve from local to national activists, they meet with banned authors, politicians, and the major players protecting the First Amendment of our Constitution. Woven throughout the story about the student activists include Congressman Jamie Raskin; bestselling and banned authors like Juno Dawson, Jodi Picoult, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Erika L. Sánchez, and Ellen Hopkins; First Amendment warriors like Jonathan Friedman from PEN America and Deborah Caldwell-Stone from the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom; Prof. Justin Hansford, the Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University School of Law; Olivia Little, a senior investigative researcher from Media Matters for America who's done in-depth reporting about Moms for Liberty since early 2021; organizations fighting on the front lines in Florida; Maurice Cunningham, author of "Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization"; and IL Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias who wrote the first anti-book-ban legislation in the country… to name just a few!

Documentary, 1 hour, 32 minutes

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Entertainment | Books and Authors |

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