Award-winning author to speak at Bucknell

Rick Dandes, The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pa.
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Feb. 15—LEWISBURG — Award-winning author George M. Johnson will be the next speaker in the Bucknell Forum 2023-24 series, presenting on the theme "Freedom of Expression" at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27 in Leanne Freas Trout Auditorium (Room 100), Vaughan Literature Building.

Johnson is the author of the New York Times bestselling young-adult memoir "All Boys Aren't Blue," which discusses adolescence and growing up as a young Black queer boy in New Jersey through a series of powerful essays.

After earning numerous honors upon its release, the book became the second most banned book of the 2021-22 school year. Johnson is now one of the author plaintiffs in PEN America, et al. v. Escambia County School District, a federal lawsuit that charges the district violated constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection under the law.

— RICK DANDES