Daily News | Two high school students who fought a book ban and won are featured at Penn TEDx conference
had risen to 8.64% and 385 people tested positive, the newspaper reported. A ninth speaker who was supposed to appear at the conference couldn’t come because she tested positive for COVID-19.
During their talk, Gupta and Ellis said their concerns began before the book ban. Gupta said she had addressed the school board in her central Pennsylvania community about the discrimination she has faced, noting how people made fun of her cultural attire, hair oil, and the lunch her Indian mother packed for her, calling it “disgusting and smelly.” Girls didn’t want to sit by her on the bus.
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