This week on The State of Perception, host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush welcomes Kelly Jensen. She’s a passionate advocate for mental freedom, democracy, and the precise to learn. As an editor at E book Riot and a former librarian, Kelly has been on the forefront of the battle in opposition to e book bans and censorship. The pressing dialog covers the rising wave of censorship, the position of non secular extremism in book-banning efforts, and what we will do to safeguard free expression and democratic values.
Kelly shares her private experiences and insights on the emotional impression of censorship, the significance of various tales, and the way communities can come collectively to help libraries and colleges. The dialogue consists of sensible steps every of us can take, similar to attending library board conferences, writing letters of help, and fascinating in native elections to guard the liberty to learn.
Later, Paul is joined by Rev. Amos Brown, the longtime president of the NAACP of San Francisco and a lifelong civil rights chief. He tells the story of loaning the Smithsonian Establishment valuable private gadgets – a historic Bible and the primary e book about Black American historical past – and the way, seemingly in implementing an anti-diversity govt order, the Smithsonian tried to return them. (He notes that almost all just lately, there appears to be motion towards reversing this determination.)
Kelly Jensen is editor at E book Riot, the biggest impartial editorial e book website in North America. Her weekly publication monitoring violations of the precise to learn and alternatives for advocacy is titled Literary Activism.
Rev. Dr. Amos Brown is a longtime pastor of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco, a congregation attended by Vice President Kamala Harris. One of many only a few college students at Morehouse Faculty who have been taught by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Amos serves as president of the NAACP San Francisco department.
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