The singer Pink will donate this Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at a concert in Florida books that have been prohibited in public libraries and schools as part of a national ban promoted by republican politiciansamong them the state governor, Ron DeSantis, who aspires to the US Presidency.
The American will make the donations at the concert she will offer tonight in Sunrise, a city in southeastern Florida, as part of a campaign that already distributed books at another of her concerts, last Tuesday night at the Kaseya Center in Miami.
“It is especially hateful to see authorities targeting books about race and racism, and LGBTQ authors. We have made a lot of progress toward equality in this country and no one should want this progress to be reversed,” he said. Pink in a statement.
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The donation of some 2,000 books during her performances in South Florida is the result of a collaboration that the Grammy winner has made with the PEN America organization and the Miami Books & Books bookstore, and between the books donated titles appear as The Family Book, by Todd Parr; The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman, the Beloved de Toni Morrison.
All of them are part of a list of at least 300 titlesmany of which have or address LGBTQ themes, which are no longer on library shelves and public schools in some of Florida’s 67 counties.
According to PEN America, Florida It is the state with the highest number of cases of prohibition of booksmore than 1,400 (although not all have actually been removed from libraries), and the largest number of school districts, 33, that removed books in the last school year.
The concerts are part of the world tour that Pink It began in June of this year and will continue until March 2024.
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2023-11-16 02:01:11
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