The Censorship Acceleration” explores how book bans have shifted from isolated incidents to a nationwide movement, driven by ...

A display of banned books at a Barnes & Noble book store in Pittsford, N.Y., on Sept. 25. (Ted Shaffrey/AP) David Levithan’s Sept. 25 Book World essay, “The new censorship won’t work — but ...

No. 1 in censorship: Florida has banned prison inmates from reading more than 20,000 books and magazines, including coloring books, language-learning texts and issues of The Economist ...

Book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 school year with more than 10,000 books banned in public schools, according to PEN America. The spike reflects a renewed effort since 2021 to ban or ...

And once we swallow that pill, it won’t stop with the books. The impulse to censor will just move on to the next thing, and the next, until there’s not much left to ban – or much freedom ...

Banned Books Week is Sept. 22- 28, highlighting censorship in the United States. Here's what to know and how to access banned books in Arizona.

Silent censorship of books is an attack on knowledge and open discourse A book is on a library shelf one day, then it’s gone. Any librarian or educator who stands up against those efforts runs ...

It’s tempting to think of the so-called Kanawha Textbook Wars as a relic from the past, but this Banned Books Week, we should ask ourselves just how far we’ve come since 1974. That year, pro ...

This month, in honor of Banned Book Week, to be celebrated Sept. 22-28, the AFRO spoke with an African-American book publisher on the issue. Robert Curry, CEO of Curry Brothers Publishing, ...

Perhaps you caught the recent story about how Florida is now the national leader in school book censorship. Yes, we’re No. 1 in censorship and 47th in SAT scores. What a completely unsurprising ...

7 banned books we recommend that everyone should read Sold by Patricia McCormick This book was published in 2006 and it is a ...

Book bans and censorship are not hoaxes. This decision contradicts the pressing need to address the discriminatory impact of such bans. In 2023, ...