Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary Makes ALA’s Most-Challenged List Again

ICTMN Staff
April 09, 2012
Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian has made it onto the American Library Association’s (ALA) list of most-challenged books once again, though it has s...

Banned Book Offered to Arizona Students Free

ICTMN Staff
February 01, 2012
The SouthWest Organizing Project, publisher of 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures , will offer the book for free to Arizona students...

Sherman Alexie Says Arizona Has Made Native Books Sacred

ICTMN Staff
January 31, 2012
Sherman Alexie threw his two cents into the Tucson book ban and ethnic studies ban in Arizona recently on The Progressive website...
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Joint Statement in Opposition to Book Censorship in Tucson Unified School District

The undersigned organizations are committed to protecting free speech and intellectual freedom. We write to express our deep concern about the removal of books used in the Mexican-American Studies Program in the Tucson Unified School District....

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January 30, 2012

Native American Activist Discusses Ban in Tucson

ICTMN Staff
January 29, 2012
Bill Means, American Indian Movement co-founder and a member of the board of the International Indian Treaty Council, recently spoke with Dennis Bernstein about the Ethnic Studies ...

More Than 22,000 Sign Petition to Save Banned Books and Ethnic Studies in Arizona

ICTMN Staff
January 26, 2012
Presente.org has garnered more than 22,000 signatures on its petition asking Tucson Unified School District Superintendent John Pedicone to bring back the banned books and the Mexi...

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