A new PEN America analysis examines the more than 10,000 instances of book bans during the 2023 ... titles featured real people or fictional characters of color. Of the nonfiction books banned ...

A quarter of banned titles included LGBTQ+ people or characters. PEN America is a nonprofit organization that tracks book bans. The organization said that commonly censored books portray themes of ...

Set “15 minutes into the future,” ‘Internment’ by Samira Ahmed follows 17-year-old Layla Amin and her family after they are systematically stripped of their rights and forced into an ...

They also tended to feature characters of color. In addition, we found book bans were more common in right-leaning counties that were becoming less conservative over time. These findings were ...

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