The push to sanitize school collections erases what literature is for: knowledge, discovery, the freedom to think The post ...

Books that challenge authority or disrupt norms have often faced bans; however, many refused to vanish quietly. Instead, they crossed borders and sparked powerful movements. Despite attempts to ...

Florida school districts removed dozens of books deemed "pornographic" by the state attorney general, prompting advocacy groups to accuse officials of violating First Amendment rights. Groups ...

The 8-1 decision to delay the vote on book challenges came after nearly two dozen speakers addressed the board. Most disagreed with allowing library patrons to take their requests to ban specific ...

BETTENDORF, Iowa — A Bettendorf Middle School student received a national award for a documentary he made. Adrian Gillette, a seventh grader, was recently awarded the bronze medal in the junior ...

“One person goes in [and says] ‘I don’t like the book.’ And, ‘OK, we’ll ban it,'” he said. “So it’ll probably be banned in a couple of counties.” Patterson was one of nearly two dozen authors who ...

Clinton’s comment came in response to a question from host Jordan Klepper on if he knew when the book, “The First Gentleman,” was “going to be banned by the Trump administration.” “It ...

Once a bestselling novel, 'The Well of Loneliness' by Radclyffe Hall was banned for its honest portrayal of lesbian love. Silenced for decades, it became a symbol of queer resistance and a quiet ...

One of those sources, PEN America, is a nonprofit that has been tracking school book bans since 2021. The organization wasn’t aware of an official Project 2025 banned book list.