{"id":1861,"date":"2025-04-28T05:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2025-04-27T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:46:07","slug":"we-sing-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/we-sing-from-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"We Sing From the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wesingfromheartfc-960x960.jpg?resize=525%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23303\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><em>We Sing From the Heart: How The Slants\u00ae Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court<\/em><br \/>\nby Mia Wenjen (Author) and Victor Bizar G\u00f3mez (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4jwz1Zw\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781636550879\">Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Music is a way to transcend cultures and divides. Simon Tam used his band&#8217;s name, The Slants\u00ae, to make a powerful statement that racist insults could no longer be hurtful to Asian Americans. But then the U.S. Trade and Patent Office tries to stop him. In his eight-year battle to win trademark protection, Simon would go all the way to the Supreme Court in a landmark case to rout out structural racism in our government systems. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wesingfromheartint-960x480.jpg?resize=525%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23304\" \/>    <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s Nonfiction Monday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. <em>(*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Sing From the Heart: How The Slants\u00ae Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court by Mia Wenjen (Author) and Victor Bizar G\u00f3mez (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Music is a way to transcend cultures and divides. Simon Tam used his band&#8217;s name, The Slants\u00ae, to make a powerful statement that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/we-sing-from-the-heart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Sing From the Heart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-u1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1659,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-justice\/","url_meta":{"origin":1861,"position":0},"title":"Ketanji Brown Jackson: Supreme Court Justice","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"February 5, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Ketanji Brown Jackson: Supreme Court Justice by Emily Dolbear (Author) @ Amazon* | Bookshop* Booktalk: On June 30, 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the 116th Supreme Court justice. 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