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These are some of the 22,500 books that Firestorm Books says were removed from Duval schools. | Firestorm Books
January 5, 2024

Bookseller says it’s giving away books removed from Duval schools

Firestorm Books of Asheville, North Carolina, says it obtained more than 22,000 books that had been removed from Duval County…

By Dan Scanlan

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Eastside High School is in the Alachua County School District in Gainesville. | Fresh Take Florida
December 1, 2023

Alachua school district returns LGBTQ book to shelves

The school district determined that a complaint about the book came from a woman who did not live in the…

By Lauren Brensel - Fresh Take Florida

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Diana Greene, left, speaks with Johnnetta Betsch Cole after a reading of banned and restricted books in James Weldon Johnson Park in Jacksonville. Cole, an anthropologist and former president of Spelman College and Bennett College, is a Jacksonville native. Greene, CEO of the Children's Literacy Initiative, is the former superintendent of Duval County Public Schools. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
September 25, 2023

Conference brings Black resistance to Jacksonville

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History read from the works of Black authors whose writings…

By Will Brown

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