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Mar 08 2021
News
Dr. Seuss
“Six Dr. Seuss books — including ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street’ and ‘If I Ran the Zoo’ — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said [last] Tuesday.” (AP News)
Last week, “Online marketplace eBay Inc… said it is working to prevent the resale of six Dr. Seuss books that were pulled
The Flip Side
Mar 03 2021
Analysis
Dr. Seuss Is Canceled
The cancel culture bells have tolled for Dr. Seuss, the beloved author of children's books like Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Oh, the Places You'll Go.
President Biden declined to mention Dr. Seuss, the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel, in his kickoff speech for Read Across America Day, a national event that promotes literacy and is historically connected with
Reason
Mar 02 2021
Analysis
Did Dr. Seuss Draw Racist Cartoons?
Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss, was well known for children’s books like “The Lorax,” which contained progressive messages about the environment and more.
But that legacy is under fire.
On Read Across America Day on March 2, 2021— which is also Dr. Seuss’ birthday — the business that preserves his legacy announced that six of his children’s books would no longer be published
Snopes
Mar 03 2021
Opinion
Dr. Seuss Gets Blindsided by a Moral Minority
If, in 1987, the editorial boards of the major newspapers learned that a fanatical cult of angry moral scolds, representing a small sliver of the population, was successfully campaigning to remove books from the public eye with the not-so-subtle encouragement of the president and his political allies, they would have been outraged. In fact, liberal pundits were outraged — by far-less
Kyle Smith
Jan 16 2023
News
Olentangy students, parents protest recent halting of Dr. Seuss reading on NPR podcast
Seventh grader Thoman Bornman read Dr. Seuss’ “The Sneetches” to roughly a dozen students and parents Monday in front of Olentangy Local School’s administrative building — more than a week after a podcast aired where a communications official stopped a teacher from finishing the book in class. “It’s important to send the school district a message that it’s OK for students to ask questions and
The Columbus Dispatch
Mar 04 2021
News
Barack and Michelle Obama praised, quoted Dr. Seuss during presidency
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama likely did not foresee Dr. Seuss becoming persona non grata in President Biden’s White House when they highlighted his work to interns and children.
Clips of the Obamas praising and quoting the famous author back in 2015 have resurfaced in the wake of the Biden administration stripping his name from Read Across America
New York Post (News)
Mar 03 2021
Opinion
Dr. Seuss silenced – sobering lessons as cancel culture strikes beloved author
Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known in households across America as Dr. Seuss, just became the latest cancel culture casualty.
If you have kids chances are you have probably found yourself on more than one occasion dressing them up as a character from their favorite Dr. Seuss book and sending them to school to celebrate his birthday.
Dr. Seuss’ birthday coincides with Read Across
Guest Writer - Right
Mar 03 2021
Opinion
Why Fox News is having a day-long meltdown over Dr. Seuss
Conservative media turned 2021’s National Read Across America Day into an epic culture war meltdown.
On Tuesday morning and into the afternoon, programming on Fox News and Fox Business ceaselessly harped upon the purported “cancellation” of legendary children’s author Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, as the latest example of woke liberalism run amok — conveniently ignoring the
Vox
Mar 02 2021
News
Dr. Seuss decision followed lengthy study of racist themes in his books
The decision to yank six Dr. Seuss books from publication Tuesday followed years of concerns over racist imagery — including an academic study that examined the characters in all of his work over 70 years.
The family of author Theodor Seuss Geisel told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the decision to pull the books from publication followed a lengthy review of feedback from “
New York Post (News)
Dec 08 2023
News
Third UNLV shooting victim ID’d as Japanese studies professor Dr. Naoko Takemaru
The third victim of the University of Nevada Las Vegas shooting was identified by officials Friday as an associate professor of Japanese Studies. Dr. Naoko Takemaru, 69, succumbed to “multiple gunshot wounds” after gunman Anthony Polito stormed the college shortly before noon Wednesday, the Clark County Medical Examiner announced. Takemaru was a decorated scholar who taught all levels of the
New York Post (News)