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Portugal. The Man Protests Book Banning in Its Former Alaskan School District

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Members of the Grammy-winning rock band Portugal. The Man are stepping into a banned book controversy in their Alaska hometown.

After the school board at the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in Palmer voted 5-2 last week to remove five classics used for high school English elective courses including F.

Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the band announced it would buy the books for any student or parent who wanted them.

The other two books are Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. The books are controversial because of sexual references and descriptions of rape and incest, "things that are pretty serious problems,

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