Former President Barack Obama Joins TikTok Campaigns To Defend Banned Books

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated July 18, 2023

Over the past two years, Kanakee Public Library staff have built a substantial social media following on their TikTok account. But the latest video from the Illinois library featured a surprise guest: former president Barack Obama, “who is shown drinking out of a library-branded mug and leafing through a paperback.”

The 44th president has joined forces with “Unite Against Book Bans,

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