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Scholastic’s Response to Authors and Illustrators on Diverse Book Restrictions Only Raises More Questions

By Joan Zahra Dark Oct 16th
A Children’s Book Was Flagged for Censorship in Alabama Because the Author’s Last Name Is Gay

By Rachel Ulatowski Oct 10th
New Jersey Librarian Shares a Trick for Educators Fighting Book Censorship

By Autumn Alston Oct 10th
A New Leftist Library Project Seeks to Combat Book Bans

By Dani Janae Oct 4th
Red Wine & Blue Looks to Reappropriate the Term ‘Parental Rights’ and Fight Book Bans

By Autumn Alston Sep 30th
Serial Book Banner Demonstrates How 11 People Accounted for 60% of All U.S. Book Challenges

By Rachel Ulatowski Sep 29th
2021 Saw Unimaginable Levels of Book Bans, But 2022 Was Worse

By Autumn Alston Sep 29th
LeVar Burton Leads Over 150 Artists and Creators in Signing Open Letter Condemning Book Bans

By Rachel Ulatowski Sep 21st
Middle School Teacher Fired For Assigning Graphic Novel Adaption of Anne Frank’s Diary

By Kayla Harrington Sep 20th
Uh, Probably Not a Good Sign That These Republican Lawmakers Want To Take a Flamethrower To Queer Books

By Chelsea Steiner Sep 19th
Award-Winning Indie Publisher Hosts Auction To Stay Open Amid Book Bans Targeting POC, LGBTQ+ Youth Lit

By Rachel Ulatowski Sep 10th
Texas Bookstores Are Fighting a Law That Targets Some of the Most Vulnerable Readers

By Rachel Ulatowski Sep 6th
Why Conservatives Are Manufacturing Controversy Over This Coming-of-Age Novel

By Rachel Ulatowski Sep 6th
Bomb Threats at Libraries Are Becoming All Too Common

By Joan Zahra Dark Sep 4th
‘Gender Queer’ Author Maia Kobabe Reflects on LGBTQ Book Bans for ‘The Nib’s Final Day

By Samantha Puc Sep 1st
15 People Got 172 Books Pulled From a Library Serving a Quarter Million Residents

By Rachel Ulatowski Aug 30th
Conservatives in WA Force Vote To Dissolve Local Library Over LGBTQ Books

By Rachel Ulatowski Aug 18th
Now Republicans Are Using AI To Ban Books in Iowa Schools

By Rachel Ulatowski Aug 17th
State of Texas Removing Dozens of Librarians & Turning School Libraries Into Disciplinary Halls

By Sarah Fimm Jul 28th
Conservative Book Banning Group Sure Has a Strange Way of ‘Supporting’ Ruby Bridges

By Sarah Fimm Jul 21st