Miami Bans Amanda Gorman Poem From Elementary Schools

Essence Magazine:

By ·Updated May 24, 2023

Two months after a parent of two Bob Graham Education Center students challenged a handful of books for their inclusion in Miami-Dade’s elementary school curriculum, the district banned four titles, including work from Black poet Amanda Gorman.

In March, Daisy Salinas challenged The ABCs of Black History, Cuban Kids, Countries in the News Cuba, the poem “The Hills We Climb,” which Amanda Gorman

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