Book Challenge Forum

Marjory Wentworth, left, moderates the speakers regarding book bans in schools, where they come from and how to challenge them during a public forum Sunday afternoon at The Technical College of the Lowcountry’s McLean Hall. Here, Josh Malkin, far right, of the ACLU, makes his point as Wentworth, far left, Poet Laureate and Professor of Literature at College of Charleston; AJ Davis, founder of Community Solutions Consulting and director of Lowcountry Black Parents Association and Paul Bowers, a former education reporter and communications secretary for the Charleston branch of Democratic Socialists of America, wait their turn to speak. Bob Sofaly/The Island News