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Banned Book Week: Top banned books of 2022
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoBook bans are nothing new. According to Harvard University, the first book ban in the United States took place in 1637 in Massachusetts. "New English...
How book bans are affecting schools and libraries
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA classroom. Illustrated | Getty Images There is something different about the recent wave of book banning. The issue of book censorship is evolving...
Public Blasts Do-Nothing School After Teacher’s Racial Slur
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 9 months agoPhoto Illustration by The Daily Beast/GoogleMapsA Connecticut school district is under fire after a...
A history of book banning in America
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBook banning. Illustrated | Getty Images Books are disappearing from the shelves of America's schools. Books about gay and lesbian characters. Books...
Centuries of book bans haven't discouraged desire to read
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI recently visited a new Albuquerque library in the heart of the International District. I gave some...
TPD officers train with ex-Navy SEAL whose corpse photo conviction led Trump to intervene
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTallahassee police officers have recently trained with former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who in 2019...
Illinois legislation seeks pledge from public and school libraries against ‘banning’ books
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“These efforts to ban reading materials have nothing to do with books, they are about restricting...
The movement to ban books is growing, report finds
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoStory at a glance A new report from freedom of expression nonprofit PEN America states that a total of 1,648 book titles have been banned in schools...
On the topic of banning books
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRecently in the news there have been lots of talk of banning books and laws going into place regarding content that impacts libraries. Each year usually in the fall the library celebrates Banned ...
EDITORIAL: The fear of books has a long history
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOct. 1—Book banning and burning is nearly as old as civilization itself—with evidence of manuscripts being burned dating back to the B.C.s—and is often done for the same reasons: politics, religion ...
