Youth activists Cameron Samuels and Da’Taeveyon Daniels fighting against book banning and censorship drop by the ALA Washington Office yesterday. They had meetings and stuff in D.C. Unite Against Book Bans ALA Public Policy & Advocacy American Library Association ALA OIF

#ToniMorrison's response to the question, "What keeps you writing?" Our latest #BorrowedandBanned episode is all about Morrison's writing & legacy. Listen: bklynlib.org/3SYFbr3 (Audio courtesy BPL & The Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Archive of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am)

We had a full house to talk defeating book bans, defending public education, and advancing democracy! Our #SXSW 2024 panel was one for the books. Many thanks to our remarkable panelists for their important perspectives and to everyone who joined us.

"If you have an entire generation of young folks who have been discounted to the point where they feel they don’t even deserve to be represented in a school library, that’s when the other side ultimately achieves their goal of disemboweling education.” austinchronicle.com/daily/sxsw/202…

TLA 2024 was definitely a conference to remember! Huge thank you to TLA for recognizing the work of a student organizer with the Sam G Whiten Intellectual Freedom Award. This award truly means the world to me and all of the other students who strive for change in our state!

Seen near today’s protest. We’d like to respond that First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly without prior restraint IS the law.

Da'Taeveyon Daniels details why he started organizing to #UniteAgainstBookBans: "I felt like I was being kind of removed from a conversation or erased from...the place where I was supposed to feel most represented. And that was a problem for me." uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/

Such an HONOR to be with these Amazing Reading Ambassadors and fellow TEENS!!!

I’ve never met odds not worth beating. Game on. Join us Democracy Forward “The incoming administration is betting that… lawyers…have less money and appetite for drawn-out court fights than during the earlier days of the anti-Trump “resistance.”” washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

I just received some incredible—and truly humbling—news that my blog is ranked 6th nationally among the "Top 30 Educational Reform Blogs and Websites of 2025," just a few spots below the U.S. Department of Education's blog. Honestly, I’m a bit overwhelmed. I started this space