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More than 10,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2023-2024 academic year, according to a new PEN America report. American Library Association data shows that while the country saw a ...
But as a new semester approaches, school curriculums and libraries are battlegrounds for book bans across the country. The free speech advocacy group PEN America indexed bans between July 2021 and ...
The Beaufort County School District on Thursday announced the next 10 titles to be reviewed by committees set up to make decisions on 97 books removed from school libraries in October.
[19] [48] [49] Adam Szetela of Newsweek opined that both the right and the left are "guilty" of banning books, citing the ban of To Kill a Mockingbird in California schools, Dr. Seuss' books being pulled from libraries and bookstores, and videos of liberals burning Harry Potter books. [50]
Stephen King has given a blunt three-word response to discovering that 23 of his books have been banned from school libraries in Florida, a law that is now being challenged by six major book ...
Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. [4] Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges.
A display of formerly banned books at a US library. Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives. This ...
The list used to pull 97 titles from school libraries nearly matches the list a local Moms for Liberty member created and sent to the school the morning the titles were taken off shelves.