People often call for books to be banned in public schools. Limiting viewpoints hinders societal progress, moving us backward.

Raise awareness about frequently challenged books and the freedom to read with the below graphics and activities. These images and downloadable PDFs are free to use to raise awareness about banned ...

Often times ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives requests from students and researchers for information about specific banned and challenged books. Part of our mission at OIF is to ...

Book bans have infamously shown that words have power. We may take for granted the innumerable words we consume daily, but ...

The majority of books banned last school year highlighted stories featuring people of color and LGBTQ+ characters and subjects. A recent analysis of thousands of banned titles by PEN America ...

Holiday House. 304 pages. $19.99. “Knowledge is power,” says one of America’s most frequently banned authors, Ellen Hopkins. “And that is what (book banners) fear. Regardless of your ...

Every day this week, the Chapel Hill Public Library will debut a trading card, designed by a local artist to feature a banned book, as a part of Banned Books Week. This week celebrates the freedom ...

FILE - Amanda Darrow from the Utah Pride Center poses with books that have frequently been the subject of book bans and challenges in this December 2021 file photo in Salt Lake City. The number of ...

What to know about Iowa’s ban on school books, LGBTQ+ topics halted by a judge A federal judge in Iowa has temporarily blocked key parts of a state law that would ban books from school libraries ...

But with those previously banned books allowed to return, schools are discussing what to do now. That includes the Urbandale Community School District, which says it’s working with lawyers ...

Ellen Hopkins’ New York Times bestseller “Tricks” has become the latest book — and the author’s third — to land on Utah’s growing list of titles banned from all public schools in the ...

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