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Owais Khan just wants to go pray. But an undeniably amplified voice booming across the way calls him a sinner and warns him of his impending eternal damnation. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ghRj_bTP 

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In a time not so long ago, Cassie Nova reads stories to kids. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gVkutbMi 

We must not let celebration temper our vigilance. As FIRE Chief Counsel Robert Corn-Revere said recently in a Washington Post op-ed, “The law denies the [FCC] ‘the power of censorship’ as well as the ability to impose any ‘regulation or condition’ that interferes with freedom of speech.” 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g3p2dwYp 

Dallas has some great places to put one foot in front of the other. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gn-9aDcE

Investigators say they do not believe 29-year-old Joshua Jahn intended to harm ICE detainees, aiming instead for law enforcement.

Erase as hard as they might, book-banners seldom succeed in eliminating the words that capture the people, history and images they would rather bury. North Texans like Akwete Tyehimba, owner of Pan-African Connection Bookstore, Art Gallery and Resource Center, are devoted to ensuring that doesn’t happen. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gkgkf_ja 

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For our Best of Dallas 2025 issue, celebrating banned books, we spoke with some of the players in Dallas’ book world, including Will Evans of Deep Vellum Books. As a graduate student studying Russian literature, Will Evans asked himself what he calls a “very simple question.” “If I know about great Russian books that are never translated to English, then what about Ukraine?” he says. What about the rest of the world? “It led me to start researching into publishing, and I realized that translation is a world that we know very little about,” he says. “So much of the world’s great books in all genres are not available in English.” When he started the publishing arm of Deep Vellum in 2013 – the bookstore opened in 2015 – his goal was to bring world literature to America and then, five years later, publish Dallas authors. “The hypothesis was it was just as hard to get published if you’re in Dallas as it is if you’re from, you know, Kiev, which is crazy,” he says. “And it was true, and it’s still true today.” Operating as a donation-supported nonprofit, Deep Vellum isn’t placing bets on a mass-market blockbuster to keep the presses running. Publishing books in smaller volumes means each book may cost more, but every author it has published remains on the store’s shelves, waiting for the curious reader to wander in or show up at one of the store’s many free events and stumble across their next great read. His grand plan extends beyond a mere five years. He wants Deep Vellum books to be read 500 years from now 🔗 https://lnkd.in/guwVTFWG  #dallastx #dallashistory #books #booklover #literature #dallasart #dallaslife #dallasliving #bookstore #publisher #dallasbookstore #dallasobserver