Bill Press: Book banning: The new Puritan scourge
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Jul 09, 2023
3 minutes
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the annual awards ceremony of the Capitol Hill Community Foundation. Among those honored and receiving grants were two organizations devoted to literacy programs among children in D.C. schools: Everybody Wins DC and Reach, Incorporated.
Jennifer Cartland, executive director of Reach, Inc., opened her remarks by asking the audience: “How many of you have had your life changed by a book you’ve read?” Immediately, almost every hand in that roomful of affluent Capitol
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