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.
Illinois.gov, “Gov. Pritzker Signs Bill Making Illinois First State in the Nation to Outlaw Book Bans,” illinois.gov, June 12, 2023 Jonathan Franklin, “New California Law Bars Schoolbook Bans Based on Racial and LGBTQ Topics,” npr.org, Sep. 26, 2023 ...
Related Topics: censorship Book Bans book See all related content book banning, the practice of prohibiting or restricting the reading of certain books by the general public or by members of a local community or religious group. Books can be banned by means of their removal from publicly acces...
according to a PEN Americareport. These districts represent nearly 3,000 schools with a combined enrollment of more than two million students. Texas has the largest number of districts enacting bans, with 16 (the state has more than 1,000 districts total). ...
By Althea Legaspi Illinois First U.S. State to Restrict Book Bans in Libraries “Regimes ban books, not democracies," said Gov. J.B. Pritzker Protect Democracy By Charisma Madarang Florida School Restricts Amanda Gorman's Inaugural 'The Hill We Climb' Poem ...
In June, Gov. JB Pritzkersigned off on a lawthat made Illinois the first state to prohibit book bans. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannouliastestified before a U.S. Senate committee in Washingtonin September to promote the law.
when they don’t purchase books that agree with the state’s anti-discrimination laws, a provision that Newsom fought to have added to the bill. AsPoliticoreported, Newsom is taking a stand against the book bans led by conservative factions like Moms for Liberty and others across the country...
Even some conservative lawmakers seem to agree the book bans have gone too far. In Florida, among the states with the most book bans in the country, lawmakers are considering legislation to make it more difficult to challenge books en masse by instituting a $100 per book fee for challenges...
José Borghino, secretary-general of the IPA in Geneva, tellsPublishing Perspectives, “In our2020 Freedom to Publish report,we noted the different types of bans that can affect books, and banning by curation was one of them. “In that context, the freedom to publish as such is not under...
Davis, author of "The World in Books," joins "CBS Mornings" to talk about the power of reading and the need to fight for the right to access books in an era of increasing bans across the U.S. Oct 11 05:39 Major publishers sue Florida over book ban law in schools Classics ...