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As the First Amendment faces growing challenges, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) welcomed American actor, author and activist George Takei for an unscripted conversation on censorship at the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza on Oct. 6, as part of Banned Books Week 2025 .
A few hundred book lovers filled the library’s lobby, greeting Takei — who served as honorary chair of Banned Books Week 2025 — with thunderous applause.
His conversation with librarian and poet Adeeba Rana focused on how to take action against book bans, along with a discussion of his graphic memoir “They Called Us Enemy.” The book, which tells the story of his family’s years in Japanese American internment camps, was banned in Tennessee in July 2024 and in Pennsylvania in 2023.
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