Banned BooksHundreds of books pulled from Florida school libraries A 35-page list outlines the hundreds of books removed from library shelves in Florida's 73 school districts. Nov 13 San Francisco bookstore pushes back on book bans A wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation and book bannings in ...
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....
NEW YORK (AP) — Two reports released Monday provide a mixed but compelling outlook on the wave of book removals and challenges as the annual Banned Books Week begins for schools, stores and libraries nationwide. The American Library Association found a substantial drop in 2024 so far in compla...
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...
s department of education in January. The Florida law, known asHouse Bill 1467, mandates that approved books be pornography-free, age appropriate, and “suited to student needs and their ability to comprehend the material presented.” What exactly this means is chillingly vague. Books that ...
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...
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 wi...
SOME 1,597 BOOKS HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED OR removed from libraries over the past year, according to the latest figures from the American Library Association (ALA)-the highest number since the organization began keeping track 20 years ago. Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA's Office for ...
This paper is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Recent efforts at book banning in the United States' schools and libraries have produced a number of material iterations of anti-banning sentiment in online retail spaces like Etsy. Most scholarship on ...
Celebrate Banned Books Week 2020 from September 27 - October 3 at Harper College Library! Here is a timeline of some of the most famous banned/challenged literature and why they were prohibited. By clicking the “More” button on the event and then cl