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Sherry Jones

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Posted bydev December 3, 2018February 20, 2019

A Brand New Novel

Josephine Baker, the early-20th-century African-American dancer, comic, and singer–hugely famous in Paris. Did you know that she was also a spy for the French Resistance during WWII?

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No laughing matter: “Index on Censorship” censors itself

Where are the heroes? Now that Index on Censorship has failed us, where in the UK and America can we turn for defense of this most precious of freedoms

Posted bysjones2016December 18, 2009March 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: "The Jewel of Medina, censorship, Danish cartoons, Jytte Klausen, Kenan Malik, self-censorship, The Cartoons that Shook the World, The New Humanist, Yale University Press11 Comments on No laughing matter: “Index on Censorship” censors itself

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