With the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week set to begin on Sunday, September 22, a week of events will serve to celebrate diversity in literature and to remind Americans that, in ...

Mark Herron isn’t exactly a media lawyer. His specialty is discrimination and employment rights, and most of his cases involve mistreatment in the workplace stemming from gender, race, or disability ...

I was telling a reporter about book bans as I got into the Uber. “PEN America has reported exactly 3,362 book bans in public schools during the 2022–23 school year,” I said. “There were over a ...

Perhaps you read about Florida’s most recent efforts to beef up book banning in public schools. Yes, Florida — a state where test scores already lag — is trying to make sure students have fewer books ...

CLINTON TOWNSHIP – The North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District Board of Education has again defeated an effort to remove a book on adolescent relationships and sexuality from the school ...

Thanks to Scott Maxwell for calling out book banners who never read the books (“Flori-duh: ‘Florida school board bans book about book bans,” June 16). But I doubt that even reading would make much ...

Thank you to The Post and Courier's editorial writers, for stating the obvious: Libraries "couldn’t ban books even if they wanted to; people can still purchase pretty much any book libraries refer to ...

Abbott Library director Mindy Atwood gathers books to be delivered to patrons at home during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sunapee, N.H., on Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (Valley News – James M. Patterson) ...