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The Band that rocked the courts

We Sing From the Heart: How The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court by Mia Wenjen, Simon Tam and Victor Bizar Gómez

October 16, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

We Sing From the Heart: How The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court by Mia Wenjen, Simon Tam (Foreword), and Victor Bizar Gómez (illustrator). I had never heard of the band, The Slants. I had never heard of their legal struggles to have the name they want. I was unaware that there was such a thing as “Chinatown Dance Rock.” But there is a band called The Slants. They had an eight year battle to patent their name. And there […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Asian American & Pacific Islander, Chinese-Americans, civil rights, human rights, Mia Wenjen, Mia Wenjen, Simon Tam and Victor Bizar Gómez, music, musical group, musicians, Rock groups, Simon Tam, The Slants, Victor Bizar Gómez

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:375 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Asian American & Pacific Islander, Chinese-Americans, civil rights, human rights, Mia Wenjen, Mia Wenjen, Simon Tam and Victor Bizar Gómez, music, musical group, musicians, Rock groups, Simon Tam, The Slants, Victor Bizar Gómez ·
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