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NYPD Blue is an American police procedural television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan. [1] Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble cast .
One notable incident included a controversial confrontation with a lesbian couple at a Harlem restaurant in 2016, where he allegedly shoved one of the two women and afterwards said "Take a picture of it, fucking [censorship] dyke.” [58] Another incident occurred in 2014, when he and other NYPD officers controversially arrested a home health ...
All American Boys: Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely: Profanity, drug use, and alcoholism; thought to promote anti-police views, contain divisive topics, and be “too much of a sensitive matter right now” [10] 2015 — — — All Boys Aren't Blue: George M. Johnson: LGBT and sexual content [11] 2020 — — — All the King's Men: Robert ...
Founded by members the American Library Association on November 20, 1969, the Freedom to Read Foundation focuses more on the legal issues regarding book censorship. One of their main objectives is "to supply legal counsel, which counsel may or may not be directly employed by the Foundation, and otherwise to provide support to such libraries and ...
Jul. 11—OLD LYME — The Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library Board of Trustees on Tuesday weighed in on a controversy that has raised questions about the definition of censorship in the small ...
Book censorship in Canada; Book censorship in China; List of books banned in India; Book censorship in Iran; List of authors banned in Nazi Germany; List of books banned in New Zealand; List of books banned in Pakistan; Book censorship in the Republic of Ireland; Book censorship in the United States
Right in the midst of Banned Books Week, which concluded on Saturday, a children's novel about a Chinese-immigrant experience entered the center of controversy in a small New York school district.
In her Washington Post analysis, Valerie Strauss contextualized the bans in the history of book censorship in the United States, dating back to charges of blasphemy in 1650 against William Pynchon's The Meritorious Price on Our Redemption, and spanning The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the Harry Potter books, which were the most ...