The numbers make compelling reading, particularly in a week when effects similar to the wave of book bannings in the United States is echoed by a Wisconsin elementary school’s removal of a song from its spring concert because the Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus duet “Rainbowland” could be, ...
Recent years have seen a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books. Here's how book banning emerged—and how it turned school libraries into battlegrounds.
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Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council noted that removing certain books from libraries is about showing discretion and respecting a community’s values and doesn’t prevent people from getting those books elsewhere: “It’s an exaggeration to refer to this as book banning. There is nothing...
“When we finished the film, there were 2,000 banned books, and now there are 6,000,” says Trish Adlesic, one of three directors of the Oscar-nominated short The ABCs of Book Banning.The documentary, which is the directorial debut of veteran doc executive Sheila Nevins and is also dir...
”I think there is an understanding, even from people who are banning books, that these are the books that shape you and can change you,” said Namrata Tripathi, president and founder of Kokila. “It reinforces my belief that a lot of people understand how meaningful this form...
I don’t think any of us realized the magnitude of book banning, how prevalent it was and who was doing it and why. In Tennessee, it’s a felony for librarians and teachers to have a banned book in a classroom, but it’s also a felony for a bookseller to have that book to...
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...
Both Flannery and Tiffany Justice, the co-founder of Moms for Liberty, say they don't believe in banning books. Flannery says books like "All Boys Aren't Blue" should be found in a public library, not in a public school. "The biggest concern is where is the accountability for how the...
Facebook and Instagram have been blocked in the Russian Federation, with both social media platforms now completely inaccessible to users in that country. Meta’s VR services haven’t been mentioned by name in the bans, although they’re also likely to become inaccessible as a side effect. ...