Requests to ban books at US public schools and libraries surged to a 21-year record in 2022, according to data from the American Library Association. Last year, the ALA recorded 1,050 requests to ...

Why it matters: A book ban is significant because it restricts others’ access to books, and the ideas contained within those books, based on another person’s often ideologically or ...

PEN is perhaps a bit unique, and that's in contrast to ALA [American Library Association] and some others, in that we do include books that have been removed while awaiting review as a ban.

Freedom is among the central tenets of American life or, at the very least, of our marketing strategy. Patriotic phrases, songs and imagery revolve around freedom, free people and freedoms that ...

Julia Friedland, a spokesperson for DeSantis, told Newsweek that the book ban is a "hoax." "There are no books banned in Florida," Friedland said in a comment over email. Left: Protesters hold ...

The attempts to censor, restrict or ban books in 2024 in the United States continued to surpass pre-pandemic levels, while books with LGBTQ+ themes dominate the most-challenged list, advocacy ...

Lisa Cutter, a Jefferson County Democrat. “Free societies don’t ban books.” She said the bill would protect school libraries from what’s known as “ban bombing,” where hundreds of ...

The department also announced that it has dismissed 11 book ban complaints and six pending complaints. According to the DOE, the complaints alleged that the removal of these books "created a ...

The Des Moines Register surveyed all 325 Iowa school districts using the open-records act and found that nearly 3,400 books were subsequently removed because of the ban before a federal injunction ...