Biden removes mention of Dr. Seuss from 'Read Across America Day' - New York Post

March 2, 2021 | 2:33am | Updated March 2, 2021 | 4:15am.

“Read Across America Day,” founded by the National Educational Association in 1998 as a way to promote children’s reading, is even celebrated on the author’s March 2 birthday.

In his presidential proclamation, Biden noted that “for many Americans, the path to literacy begins with story time in their school classroom,” USA Today reported.

Seuss’ work has generated controversy following a study highlighting a lack of diversity among the author’s characters

“Of the 2,240 (identified) human characters, there are forty-five characters of color representing 2% of the total number of human characters,” according to a 2019 study from the Conscious Kid’s Library and the University of California that examined 50 of Dr