The association last year created itsUnite Against Book Bansnational initiative “to empower readers everywhere to stand together in the fight against censorship.” During April’s National Library Week, the plan is to observe the first anniversary of that initiative. More on the American Library As...
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.
Op-Comic: 3,362 book bans? What year is this, anyway? Jones fell into depression. She said she cried so hard that her eyes swelled shut; she had panic attacks, and her blood pressure spiked. She wondered how to explain the furor to her teenage daughter. She went to a therapist and ...
Also not mentioned are the ways that folks arecashing in big from book bans. Nothing says America quite like revoking foundational rights and “developing” a solution for folks to navigate them. We haven’t touched on the wave ofbomb threats to public libraries, either, nor theincredible inc...
The article examines Iowa's legislative efforts to ban LGBTQ books in schools, focusing on the policies that restrict the teaching of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Topics discussed include Iowa's House File 802 and Senate File 496, the broader national trend of anti-...
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 brought by people whose children do not attend school in a given district, ...
By Hillel Italie Published 4:46 AM GMT+8, March 24, 2023 Share NEW YORK (AP) — Attempted book bans and restrictions at school and public libraries continue to surge, setting a record in 2022, according to a new report from the American Library Association released Thursday. More than...
Notably, Newsom’s bill follows Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’sJune 2023 bill, HB 2789, whichfines public libraries that go along with “partisan” or “doctrinal” bans. A public library violating Pritzker’s bill would find itself ineligible for state funding starting Jan. 1, 2024. Accordin...
FORT LAUDERDALE -- A new report from a nonprofit group said Florida is leading the country in the number of books pulled from library and classroom shelves. The new report from PEN America, a literary and free expression advocacy group, found that book bans in pub...
“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she's not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”-Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book AwardsPart memoir, part manifesto, ...