In all, about 4,240 books were targets of censorship efforts last year, with about half of those books written by or including people of color and those from LGBTQ+ communities, the ALA found. Gratz said that when "Ban This Book" was published, the most frequently banned books were works...
in their communities. there were no such attempts as recently as 2021. in prior years, the ala report notes, most attempts to restrict access to books were targeted at one particular title. the ala notes that of titles challenged in 2023 so far, “the vast majority of challenges were to ...
MIAMI- Pink will give away 2,000 banned books at her South Florida shows this week in partnership with the literary and free expression advocacy group PEN America. Fans who attend the Miami and Sunrise, Florida, stops of the singer-songwriter's "Trustfall Tour" Tuesday and Wednesday wil...
You know where this is going. Books with a queer character, even just a bit player, who questions their gender seem to land on the banned lists. Opinion Abcarian: Want a good book? Try one your 9th grader isn’t allowed to read Jan. 31, 2024 In Florida,some versions of “The Diary...
PEN America and Penguin Random Housefiled a lawsuit against a Florida schoolfor "unconstitutional" removal of books from libraries. PEN America is alsorunning a campaign with poet Amanda Gorman, whose inauguration poem"The Hill We Climb"wasremoved from an elementary school in Miami Lakes, Florida....
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"Sites like PornHub are on the run because Texas has a law that aims to prevent them from showing harmful, obscene material to children,"said Paxton."In Texas, companies cannot get away with showing porn to children. If they don’t want to comply, good riddance." ...
Despite the First Amendment of the Constitution -- which most people agree is a solid idea -- there are books that are challenged in America every year.
Between July and December 2022, instances of individual book bans occurred in 66 school districts in 21 states with bans most prevalent in Texas, Florida, Missouri, Utah and South Carolina. Reading and advocating for banned books is one of the ways you can resist the attacks on teaching truth...
is likely to get caught in the crosshairs. “Do I think thatFreewaterwill be added to certain counties’ banned or challenged books lists? Absolutely, I am certain of that,” says Kathleen Daniels, president of the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME). “It’s so disheartening...