Book bannings in schools across America have been increasing drastically throughout the past year. This is setting a dangerous precedent of censorship and hindering intellectual freedom.
A book ban matters because it restricts access to books, and the ideas within, based on someone's ideological or political objection.
Book Bannings Are On The Rise
Book bans become a front in the partisan culture war
The Kids Right to Read Project says many of the books that parents or groups try to bay are from minority authors. Also: A "recently unearthed" story from Zelda Fitzgerald; and how Vladimir Nabokov loved butterflies.
Why are books being challenged at an “alarming” rate? Experts weigh in.
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Facing smear campaigns and death threats, librarians are on the front lines of an urgent battle for intellectual freedom.
Public libraries in conservative states are under attack.
Bari Weiss and other self-anointed defenders of free speech used the author’s stabbing to accuse the left of rhetorical excess—and ignored the very relevant scourge of book-banning by the American right.
For years, Out of Darkness appeared on reading lists as a recommendation for ambitious young readers ready to face disquieting aspects of the American experience. It began facing bans in 2021.
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According to PEN America, a growing number of local political and advocacy groups have focused their attacks on books featuring LGBTQ+ characters and characters of color.
Actor, author and 'Reading Rainbow' founder Levar Burton joins the L.A. Times Book Club to discuss the State of Banned Books.
