Join us to
celebrate Free Speech Week with the American Library Association (ALA)
President, Lessa Kanani'opua Pelayo-Lozada. She will discuss the record numbers
of book challenges that
ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom has tracked. Many of the challenges
involve stories with characters or themes about race, gender identity, and
sexuality. She will detail how ALA is supporting library workers experiencing
these challenges in their own libraries, and share tools for all supporters of
the freedom to read to fight against book challenges from the Unite Against
Book Bans campaign.