Concerned residents joined the line outside the West End Neighborhood Library in D.C. on Sunday to pick up a banned book. For Mary Jane Webb, the Banned Wagon’s…
Read more DC Public Library hops on ‘The Banned Wagon’ for Banned Books Week 2025 – WTOP NewsIn 2022, career bookseller K. Kerimian conceived of The Nonbinarian Book Bike, a trans- and queer-led mobile mutual aid initiative that distributes free LGBTQIA2s+ books for all ages…
Read more Brooklyn’s LGBTQ Book Bike Is Crowdfunding to Open a Brick-and-Mortar Storefront | The Mary SueAn archive photo of books in the library at M.H. Moore Elementary School in Fort Worth. The Fort Worth Independent School District is in the process of returning…
Read more Fort Worth ISD to return some banned books to libraries after 100+ pulled for reviewAfter a number of parents contacted Conroe ISD Trustee Stacey Chase asking if they could challenge book removals from library and classroom shelves, the board discussed possible additions…
Read more Conroe ISD Trustees Discuss How Residents Opposed to Throwing Out Books Can File a ComplaintAt HuffPost, we believe that everyone needs high-quality journalism, but we understand that not everyone can afford to pay for expensive news subscriptions. That is why we are…
Read more Book Ban Efforts Continued To Soar, Set Record Highs In 2023: Report3/3/2024: Operation Lone Star; 97 Books; Artemis – CBS News Watch CBS News First, a report on barricades and battles on the Texas border. Then, a look at…
Read more 3/3/2024: Operation Lone Star; 97 Books; ArtemisThe Escambia County School District is being sued for taking 1,600 titles out of its collection, out of fear that the books violate Florida law. Source link
Read more Florida School District Pulls Dictionaries, Encyclopedias From Library Over ‘Sexual’ ContentGrammy-winning singer Pink is taking the fight against censorship to where she works. The pop star on Monday announced she was giving away thousands of banned books at…
Read more Pink Pulls An In-Your-Face Move To Fight Book Bans In FloridaThis article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Moms for Liberty, the right-wing extremist group that aims to bring a conservative agenda to…
Read more Moms For Liberty’s School Board Takeover Attempts Fizzled Out On Election DayActivists with the right-wing group Moms for Liberty in northwest Florida were filmed demanding that sheriff’s deputies investigate the circulation of a high school library book that one…
Read more Video Shows Right-Wing Activists Demanding Police Probe Over Novel Found In SchoolsAn award-winning Canadian author’s last name recently led an Alabama library system to flag her children’s book as potentially “sexually explicit,” according to a local news report. The…
Read more Library Flags Book As Potentially ‘Sexually Explicit’ Due To… Author’s Last Name: ReportLast month, the Florida Department of Education revealed that more than 300 books had been removed from public school shelves in the state during the 2022-2023 school year.…
Read more In Florida, More Than 300 Books Have Been Removed From School ShelvesCUMMING, Ga. (AP) — When Allison Strickland urged a suburban Atlanta school board in June to remove four books from school libraries, she was following a path cleared…
Read more Georgia Made It Easier For Parents To Challenge School Library Books. Almost No One Has Done SoArkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” or “obscene” materials to minors, a federal…
Read more Judge blocks Arkansas law that would allow librarians to be charged for loaningLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to…
Read more Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Allowing Librarians To Be Criminally Charged Over ‘Harmful’ MaterialsFormer President Barack Obama spoke out Monday against the rising number of book bans in American schools and libraries as “contrary to what has made this country great”…
Read more Obama Speaks Out, Joins Libraries’ TikTok Videos In Fight Against Book BansCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday that the state would be picking up a conservative Southern California school district’s slack. Last month, the board for the Temecula…
Read more Gavin Newsom Threatens To Intervene After School District Rejects Classroom MaterialsOne day in March, Katie Rinderle, a fifth-grade teacher in Cobb County, Georgia, read “My Shadow Is Purple” by Scott Stuart, which she had purchased at an in-school…
Read more A Georgia Teacher Read A Book To Her Class — And Was FiredIt was not particularly surprising that Ryan Walters declared Oklahoma schools wouldn’t go “woke” under his leadership as he campaigned for a role that would give him power…
Read more Even Republicans Think This Radical Official Has Gone Too FarWith Florida legislators barring even the mention of being gay in classrooms and similar restrictions under consideration in other states, a report released Monday says books with LGBTQ+…
Read more “Gender Queer” tops library group’s annual list of challenged books as works with LBGT themes targeted
