Malala Yousafzai, an education youth activist, once said, “When the whole world is silent, even
one voice becomes powerful.”
Censorship, by definition, involves the regulation, suppression, or prohibition of speech or
communication in any way.
Many times censorship is associated with contentious topics regarding race, gender, culture, or
education.
Books containing foul language, contentious topics (i.e., “critical race theory”), sexual language,
or “inappropriate” material are taken off school shelves and added to a “book banning” list.
Books such as Out of Darkness, Lawn Boy, and Forever For a Year, were taken off numerous
school shelves because of complaints by parents, community members, or other vocal
stakeholders.
Though book banning is a type of censorship, other ways such as journalists getting threatened,
harassed, or arrested for what they report, and protesters getting arrested, fired from their jobs,
alienated by family due to governmental threats to loved ones, are forms of censorship.
This issue revolves around freedom of speech and censorship. In the United States, the First
Amendment of the Constitution provides protection against censorship.
How have you been censored? What does censorship mean to you specifically or your family,
community, or country?
All articles, poems, artworks, and photographic essays will be due on February 29.
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News articles, poems, artwork, photography, and commentary should revolve around the
concept of censorship perhaps featuring your communities’ various forms of censorships
(nuanced, blatant, overt, covert, sanctioned, etc.)
