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The high school English teacher from Norman, Okla. was placed on leave earlier this month after connecting students with the Brooklyn Public Library’s Books UnBanned program.

Let the voices of John Lewis, Tina Chang, Naomi Klein, Fran Lebowitz and more serenade you as you go about your day this summer.

The photographs were taken over a two-year period.

Flickr user xbettyx After being publicly embarrassed when a Washington Post

Flickr user wallyg Brooklyn Public Library chief Dionne Mack-Harvin has resigned

So about that locked vault that holds controversial books at the

Photo of novelty book at the NYPL/Gothamist Fact: The Brooklyn Library

Sure, World Breastfeeding Week isn't until August, but the lactivists can