News

Banned Wagon visiting Houston to give communities free books

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

via Houston Chronicle (Texas)

The Banned Wagon plans to stop at Kindred Stories in Houston to distribute 500 free...

Book Bans

For Banned Books Week, Michigan advocates take a stand against censorship

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

via Detroit Metro Times (Michigan)

Ann Arbor bookstore Booksweet is doing their part to make change and spread awareness about book bannings in the state

Book Bans

How the nation’s most famous newspaper editor took on Trump and his own reporters

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

via Los Angeles Times (California)

Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron joins the L.A. Times Book Club Oct. 11 to discuss "Collision of Power," his book about Trump, Bezos and the future of journalism.

Book Bans

Rahway’s Roosevelt School Holds Successful Back-to-School Night

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

via TAPinto (New Jersey)

Book Bans

‘Don’t Drag Me Down’: Artists expound on ‘Today’s Battle for Liberation’ in Oakton College exhibit

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

via Daily Herald (Illinois)

This year's Oakton College Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program Art Exhibit features a record number of artists that address various topics across 15 mediums.

Book Bans

Book bans are growing across Florida. So, a church and bookstore teamed up in protest

Sunday, October 1st, 2023

via Miami Herald (Florida)

A Coral Gables bookstore and a church, which calls itself 'a sanctuary for banned books,' were behind the Banned Books Week event.

Parent Involvement, Book Bans

As libraries face ‘frightening’ situation, this new Kansas City event celebrates books

Sunday, October 1st, 2023

via The Kansas City Star (Kansas)

The library's new Heartland Book Festival will showcase a weekend of literature for all genres and ages, plus children's theater, music and more.

Book Bans

Books bring us together, but books are under attack

Sunday, October 1st, 2023

via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)

The librarian and archivist at Rollins College writes about Banned Books Week, which begins Oct. 1, and Let Freedom Read Day.

Book Bans

3 questions for George M. Johnson, whose book ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ has been banned in 5 states

Sunday, October 1st, 2023

via WPXI-TV (Pennsylvania)

George M. Johnson's debut memoir, All Boys Aren't Blue, set out to tackle the subject of what it's like to grow up Black and queer in America. The book, Johnson told Yahoo News, started out with the…

Book Bans

Parenting in the age of information (and misinformation, and disinformation)

Saturday, September 30th, 2023

via Arkansas Times (Arkansas)

In a year when Arkansas's librarians are fending off book bans, and an executive order from Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders restricts what topics can be taught in classrooms, the battle over information…

Book Bans

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh enters Banned Books Week with more urgent mission

Saturday, September 30th, 2023

via Pittsburgh City Paper, Inc. (Pennsylvania)

The Pittsburgh public library system is using an annual celebration to highlight endangered writing and provide more resources to combat growing book-banning efforts.

Book Bans

New York Public Library launches nationwide campaign to fight unprecedented rise in book bans across the US

Saturday, September 30th, 2023

via New York Daily News (New York)

NEW YORK — The New York Public Library is pushing back against the unprecedented rise in the banning or challenging of books in libraries and schools across the U.S. with

Book Bans

Moms for Liberty is convening this summer in Philly, a backdrop for the group’s focus on ‘preserving American values’

Friday, September 29th, 2023

via The Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania)

Pennsylvania has the second-most members, next to Florida, where the group was founded in 2021.

Parent Involvement, LGBTQ+, Book Bans, School Board – General, Racism

On eve of Banned Books Week, St. Louis-area libraries become battlegrounds in culture wars

Friday, September 29th, 2023

via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Illinois)

Attempts at book banning are rising and more successful — especially in school libraries — than ever.

Parent Involvement, LGBTQ+, Book Bans

Kootenai County sheriff ‘disturbed’ by sexually explicit library books, saying he’d pay to keep them

Friday, September 29th, 2023

via The Spokesman Review (Washington)

Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said he was 'shocked' and 'disturbed' at some of the books available to youth at local libraries, and he's been hanging on to copies that he'd rather pay to keep…

Parent Involvement, LGBTQ+, Racism, Book Bans

Author in Lincoln to promote his new book while making time for the Huskers

Friday, September 29th, 2023

via Journal Star (Nebraska)

Will Leitch will make a 5:30 p.m. appearance at Francie & Fitch Bookshop, 130 S. 13th St., Friday to promote his new book, "The Time has Come."

Book Bans

Kamala Harris brings ‘Fight for Freedom’ college tour to FIU

Thursday, September 28th, 2023

via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)

Vice President Kamala Harris makes Florida International University in Miami the sixth stop on her "Fight for our Freedoms" college tour, and the first in Florida, speaking out on abortion, education, the climate crisis, and voting rights.

Book Bans, Racism

Boston Public Library joins ‘Books Unbanned’ initiative, opening digital collection to teens, young adults across US

Thursday, September 28th, 2023

via The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)

The program, first established by the Brooklyn Public Library last year, allows anyone from age 13 to 26 who lives in the US to obtain a Boston Public Library e-card to check out e-books and digital…

Book Bans