Banned Books Week highlights efforts to limit access to books, but the debate often results in people talking past, not to, one another.

In 2022, she spoke at a local public library hearing about a challenge to remove a book about teen puberty, sexuality and consent from the shelves. She showed up with other community members to argue ...

A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states. By Elizabeth A. Harris Restrictions on books in public schools have become “rampant and common,” according to a new ...

A Davidson County school board member is pushing to remove four books from school libraries saying they contain sexually explicit and inappropriate material. Mur DeJonge, who is both a pastor and a ...

HARTLAND TWP. — Some residents are concerned that recent book challenges at Cromaine District Library will lead to the censoring of LGBTQ+ materials. Library Director Sarah Neidert recently received ...

When a junior at an Orange County public high school in Florida visited the school library to check out a copy of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, it wasn’t in its Dewey decimal system-assigned location.

3 of 5 Escambia County School Board members support eliminating the book review committees. District 4's Carissa Bergosh says she is still on the fence about the matter. Under the proposed book ...

Editor’s note: As the clock ticks down on Davidson County School Board member Mur DeJonge’s challenge to have books removed from the school system’s school libraries, he sat down with a Dispatch ...

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ author published a short story taking aim at a provincial order to remove 200 books from Edmonton school library shelves, including Atwood’s classic novel turned into a popular ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Siding with publishers and authors, a federal judge Wednesday ruled that a key part of a 2023 Florida law that has led to books being removed from school library shelves is ...

Six publishing companies, The Authors Guild, five authors, and two parents sued in August 2024 amid controversies in many areas of the state about decisions by school districts to restrict book access ...

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