The Urban Legend

The School Newspaper of Urban School of San Francisco

The Urban Legend

The School Newspaper of Urban School of San Francisco

The Urban Legend

Illustration credit: Art Spiegelman.

Vulgar or educational: why are books being banned?

Ezra Bergson-Michelson, Staff Writer March 3, 2022

Recently, books with titles such as “Gender Equality,” “LGBTQ Rights,” “Black Lives Matter: From Hashtage to the Streets,” and “Safe Sex 101: An Overview for Teens” have been submitted...

Opinion: choosing to ignore intellectual discomfort is a privilege

Lochlain Steere, Editor in Chief, Creative November 18, 2021

As a current 12th grade Service Learning student, I am reminded of the fluency that Urban offers students in discussions of identities like race, gender and sexuality. This fluency makes the inability...

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