Tony Morrison Day and the Right to Read

Our Press conference on February 18 received a lot of coverage, as the story by the Associated Press reporter was picked up by US News and World Report, the Washington Post, MSN The Canadian Press, and others around the US. Everyone spoke wonderfully, and we are very thankful to Senator Catherine D. Ingram and Representative Joe Miller and their legislative assistants, as well as Lorain Public Library System for partnering with us in this project. Many people stopped by on both February 18 and 19 to see the exhibit. My elevator speech got more honed with each opportunity!

You can view the video of the press conference remarks HERE, and the AP article by Julie Carr Smyth HERE. You can also see the excellent report by Morgan Trau of News 5 Cleveland WEWS HERE. I also noticed that the coverage by ABC4 quoted John Fortney, Director of Communications for the Ohio Senate Majority Caucus, as saying that books bans are a "fiction promoted by today's left" and other Republicans saying that all the disagreement is about age appropriateness. We beg to differ. Book bans are real, attempted book bans have been frequent in Ohio (235 titles reported in 2023) and librarians have received threats to their jobs and their personal safety for offering books that so much as mention LGBTQ+ characters with no sex mentioned at all. 

I am tired, still shoveling snow, but very, very grateful for everyone's support. Thank you.