{"id":1399440,"date":"2023-12-18T20:38:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T20:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=2bc6a1fb6fb67c543d76be49b1a9434b"},"modified":"2023-12-18T20:38:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T20:38:38","slug":"pressley-bill-would-classify-discriminatory-book-bans-as-civil-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/18\/pressley-bill-would-classify-discriminatory-book-bans-as-civil-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressley Bill Would Classify Discriminatory Book Bans as Civil Rights Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Republicans pursue a wave of book bans across the country seeking to censor Black history and LGBTQ representation, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts) has introduced a bill that would classify many of these bans as violations of federal civil rights laws. Introduced last week, the Books Save Lives Act would make the disproportionate exclusion of books that include content on certain...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/pressley-bill-would-classify-discriminatory-book-bans-as-civil-rights-violations\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/pressley-bill-would-classify-discriminatory-book-bans-as-civil-rights-violations\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bill would also require public and school libraries to have a diverse book collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10547,4717,1350,44955,92,668,4,276],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399441,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399440\/revisions\/1399441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}