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Commentary: Access to books and information is basic to a healthy democracy

Utah authors stand against efforts to demonize books about LGBTQ and minorities.

(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) Carvel Harward reads a copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" at the Smith Branch of the County Library. The public was invited to bring their favorite banned book to the Smith branch and participate in a Facebook live event where they would all read from their banned books, simultaneously, for approximately three minutes in celebration of our intellectual freedom, Sunday, September 24, 2017.