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Oct 6
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Unbound Pages: 'The Librarians' spotligh...

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Sunday, October 5, marks the start of this year's Banned Books Week – an annual commemoration in support of free and open access to information. It’s a week celebrated 
by authors, publishers, teachers and book lovers across the country, including librarians, many of whom are under attack as they fight for the freedom to read. That fight is the subject of a new documentary coming to Boston later this month. We speak with award-winning and Oscar-nominated director Kim Snyder and librarian Audrey Wilson-Youngblood to learn more.

  • Listen to all the stories that are part of our year-long series on the anti-book-banning movement in America -- Unbound Pages: gbhnews.org/unboundpages
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