The report comes during Banned Books Week, which first began in 1982 to raise awareness about the importance of free and ...

During the 2023-2024 school year, PEN America recorded 10,046 instances of book bans across 29 states and 220 public school districts. These bans restricted access to the work of 2,662 authors ...

Supporters of the new policy said it protected students from vulgar content — an argument that's been used broadly by those who support restricting books from public school libraries.

Part of that equality was Black Southerners fighting for an extension of public ... of book bans and into education freedom. Dr. Michelle Christian is a sociologist and a Knox County high school ...

Amid concerns about book bans across the country ... The proposed measure would: “…prohibit public and school libraries from excluding or censoring books because of the origin, background ...

Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" is among the books being targeted nationwide by public school ... report from EveryLibrary, an Illinois-based organization that advocates against book bans.

To two Democratic senators in Connecticut's legislature, introducing a bill protecting librarians and prohibiting book bans wasn't ... aims to prohibit public and school libraries from excluding ...