FILE - Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents in Salt Lake City on Dec. 16, 2021. The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, ...
Book ban attempts hit record high in 2022, library org says FILE - A pile of challenged books appear at the Utah Pride Center in Salt Lake City on Dec. 16, 2021. Attempted book bannings and restrictions at school and public libraries continue to surge, according to a new report from...
FILE - Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents in Salt Lake City on Dec. 16, 2021. The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, ...
Illinois passed a law in Aug. 2009 banning registered sex offenders from using social media. However, a Dec. 31, 2008, Internet Safety Technical Task Force report presented to the US State Attorneys General found that adults lying about their ages to initiate relationships with minors are a rar...
FILE - Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books, including "The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison, that have been the subject of complaints from parents in Salt Lake City on Dec. 16, 2021. The wave of book bannings...
Book banning is so pervasive that the top 10 lists need more slots this year. The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom released itsrankingof the most targeted books in 2022 on April 24, with LGBTQ memoirs at the top of the 13-book list. Maia Kobabe’s Gender Que...
Unfortunately, there’s a strong possibility that 2023 will set another new record for book-banning efforts. Conservative parents and politicians have been leading the book-banning effort, withseveral states passing legislationrestricting the materials children can access in both schools and public ...
the right). English teachers in the Norman Public Schools district in Oklahoma were instructed to review books in the classroom libraries to check which titles might “elicit challenges” to a state law banning the instruction of critical race theory. This is referred to as "preemptive banning....
This banning impulse also hit Malinda Lo’s Last Night at the Telegraph Club, which has been challenged and outright banned in schools in a number of states. A lesbian love story between a Chinese American and white American set in 1950s San Francisco, it won the National Book Award in 20...
About a third of book bans reported in fall 2022 were a result of new state laws, free speech group says “The toll of the book banning movement is getting worse. More kids are losing access to books, more libraries are taking authors off the shelves, and opponents of free expression are...