Students At A U.S. University Burn A Campus Speaker’s Book

One student recorded the burning of author Jennine Capó Crucet’s novel, which Georgia Southern had chosen as a campus read: “These people decide to burn her book because ‘it’s bad and that race is bad to talk about,'” she tweeted. Other outlets reported that “a group of apparently angry students had gathered outside” the author’s original hotel, so the college moved her to a different one. (The college’s response has been, shall we say, a bit tepid.) – Remezcla