Kim Snyder’s “The Librarians” made its North Texas premiere on Oct. 14 at the Texas Theatre in Dallas. The documentary chronicles how public school librarians became the front…
Read more Movie shares the impact on librarians after a Texas lawmaker targeted 849 booksThousands of books have been banned from schools over the last year, according to a new report, and just three red states account for the vast majority of…
Read more A Disturbing Trend Has Taken Hold In Red States: ‘The Result Is Unprecedented’Though book bans aren’t new, many researchers and insiders in the book business agree that censorship efforts seem to be increasing. We at the Observer know this, too,…
Read more How Half Price Books is Staying Vigilant in the Fight Against CensorshipWhat does one organization do when pro-censorship advocates and special interest groups spearheading widespread book removals in local-area school districts permeate into public libraries? It opens its own…
Read more The Woodlands Pride Will Open A Community Library Featuring LGBTQ & Other NarrativesWith election season upon us, the forces of politics are pulling us apart and among the sharpest battles recently is a campaign to ban certain books from public…
Read more Beaufort, South Carolina, schools return most books to shelves after attempt to ban 97On Tuesday, The Conroe ISD Board of Trustees voted to approve disposing of discontinued instructional resources — including more than 2,800 books related to the district’s recent removals.…
Read more Conroe ISD Trustees Vote To Throw Out Thousands Of Classroom BooksThanks to Donald Trump’s presidential term, the conservative legal movement has been able to realize some of its wildest dreams: overturning the constitutional right to an abortion, ending…
Read more A MAGA JudiciaryThe Scholastic Book Fair will discontinue its separate selection of books on race and gender following criticism that segregating the titles caters to the right-wing censorship that is…
Read more Scholastic Book Fair Will Discontinue Separate Collection Of Race And Gender BooksThe Scholastic Book Fair is facing backlash for choosing to separate books on topics of race and gender from other books at its school fairs as right-wing censorship…
Read more Scholastic Book Fair Receives Backlash For Its Solution To Book BansCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed legislation Monday prohibiting schools from banning books because they highlight race, sexual orientation or other protected characteristics, a rebuttal to efforts in…
Read more California Has Banned Book Bans, Bucking GOP Censorship TrendA school district in Texas has fired a teacher who assigned eighth-grade students a graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary. The Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District’s communication coordinator,…
Read more Texas School District Fires Teacher Over Anne Frank Graphic Novel ReadingTeachers in Iowa are scrambling to remove books from their classrooms that might not comply with a new law. However, educators say the law is vague and confusing…
Read more Republicans Have Thrown Teachers A New ‘Chaos Bomb’The Cobb County School Board in Georgia voted 4-3 on Thursday evening to officially terminate a fifth-grade teacher who was suspended for reading a book about gender identity…
Read more Teacher Loses Appeal To Get Job Back After Being Fired For Reading A Book To Her ClassAcross multiple fronts, Democrats and their allies are stiffening their resistance to a surge of Republican-led book bans. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the…
Read more The Book-Bans Debate Has Finally Reached a Turning PointWhile negotiating the state budget last week, Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries. As the proposal moves to the Missouri Senate, public…
Read more Missouri Republicans Take A Draconian Step That Would Hurt LibrariesWhen we think of bees in decline, we often think about pesticides and a lack of food (itself linked to human environmental destruction). However, another big factor is…
Read more Even Allergic, This Scientist Found an Innovative Way To Save the Bees
