Officials from Mason City School District in Iowa used ChatGPT to carry out the banning of books containing depictions of sex from schools under its jurisdiction.
Books are being challenged, restricted, or banned in schools and libraries across the country. Most banned books focus on LGBTQ+ or racial themes. This is a small project to share banned books through Little Free Libraries so young people can access them. There are two ways to help: You ca...
Judge Stephen Locher's preliminary injunction halts enforcement of the law, which was set to take effect Jan. 1 but already had resulted in the removal of hundreds of books from Iowa schools. The law, which the Republican-led Legislature and GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds approved early in 2023, ban...
571 unique titles were challenged. This is a 32% increase from the previous number, 1,858. It has a lot to do with how all across the country groups are aggressively and consciously targeting books for censorship. At the center of all thiscensorshipare schools and libraries...
including The New York Times, many of those book bans are occurring in states, likeIowa,UtahandFlorida, where new laws support overt censorship. Many of these lawmakers have aligned themselves with so-called parental rights groups that advocate for restricting books lest children stumble...
Book banners were successful elsewhere in the US’s deep South. In Alabama, four members of the State Textbook Committee, which decides what books are allowed in local schools, asked that the book be rejected because, they said, it preached “bitterness and hatred against whites”. And, in ...
Banned in Iowa: None; free state with no major restrictions on guns, ammo or parts. Banned in Kansas: Setting spring guns Possessing, manufacturing, causing to be manufactured, selling, offering for sale, lending, purchasing or giving away any cartridge that can be fired by a handgun and has...
Today’s pop-up books are more directly tied to 1929’s “Daily Express Children’s Annual No. 1,” published by Louis Giraud and Theodore Brown. Known at the time as a “movable,” Giraud and Brown’s book introduced a handy flap that, when pulled, prompted cardboard models to spring...
from the street—it’s the last window on the far right on the building’s sixth floor side facing Dealey Plaza. Inside the fascinating museum that now exists on the sixth floor, boxes of books have been stacked around the window to simulate what it would have looked like in November ...