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The Department of Defense has banned more than 500 titles from its military schools, alleging the books promote “woke” ...
A dangerous trend spreading across local governments in the United States seems to rely on the sexualization of children to justify censorship.
As GOP lawmakers push to ban some books and restrict history lessons, groups across the country plan a day of actions to counter the efforts.
The Bottom, a Black-focused bookstore and community space, is hosting a club to give people a chance to read books recently ...
AUSTIN — School boards could yank books off school library shelves if locals think they’re profane or indecent under ...
The same people who ve been sounding the false alarm about book banning across the country are the ones banning books that ...
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation recently awarded 34,639 children’s books to 73 organizations through its Early Literacy Grant Program, increasing the annual distribution by 15,000 books.
In 1946, an award-winning author wrote one of the first children’s books about racism. The main character was a young African American girl, a Girl Scout Brownie with pigtails. Carla Hayden ...
and the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, members of the Velshi Banned Book Club know that literary merit does little to stop censorship—and it has certainly not stopped ...
Thus, as Bollen observes, “the focus on individual relationships between mothers and children diverts our attention away from societal ills such as poverty and racism.” All three books gesture ...
Eggers was in town on May 5 to screen his documentary, “To Be Destroyed,” concerning his visit to Rapid City, South Dakota, after the city banned his 2013 book “The Circle” and marked all district ...
(WZTV) — Heated emotions and loud objections erupted Monday night as the Sumner County Library Board introduced a controversial plan that would centralize control over what books are allowed in ...