Hoboken Public Library Celebrates Families, Love, Diversity
By Steve Lenox
Love won in Hoboken on Saturday as dozens of local families, none the same as the other, turned out in Church Square Park to celebrate the Hoboken Public Library’s Banned Book Read-a-Thon.
With Mayor Ravi Bhalla, Hoboken City Council President Emily Jabbour, Council members Michael DeFusco and Phil Cohen, and Jennie Pu, the Hoboken Public Library’s Director, standing up to nearly a week of attacks from mostly outside interest groups criticizing the nature of the event, a cavalcade of other public figures joined them one by one on stage, each using passages from books that have been banned in other states to remind all in attendance that it okay to be “different.”