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America’s book bans have already come for prisons
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFrom colouring books to abolition newspapers and Reader’s Digest magazines, thousands of titles are banned in prisons and jails across the country, often...
PEN America reports book bans in Florida and U.S. grow by the thousands. What we know
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOf all the book bans listed in PEN America's latest report, 40% of them happened in Florida. Here's...
It's Banned Books Week, And Chances Are, Your Favorite Book Is On This List Of Books That Have Been...
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 1987, Where's Waldo? was banned because one reader spotted a partially topless woman in one of...
America’s young people can get healthier by reading banned books and having sex | Opinion
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 11 months agoBan this column! Please! It might seem strange to call for the cancellation of one’s own column. But...
Florida leads book bans in prison with inmates barred from reading more than 22,000 books
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFlorida is no longer just the leader in banned books in schools, it’s also leading the nation in the...
Book bans spreading across Michigan: What's driving them
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBook banning is spreading. From metro Detroit to Texas, battles over books are on the rise and some...
Banned Books: How to read challenged books, ebooks for free, even in Florida
Daytona Beach News-Journal via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAs more and more books are challenged, removed or banned from schools across the country — with...
Book bans are surging — and taking an emotional toll on many authors
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWhile some book bans have led to higher sales, as seen with “Maus” and “The Hate U Give,” some...
Meet Matt Krause, the man who critics say helped make Texas a national leader in book bans
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGeorgii Boronin/Getty; blackred/Getty; Studio Blond/Getty; LoveTheWind/Getty; Anna Kim/Insider One...
11 Most Banned Books by Schools So Far This Year
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe advocacy group PEN America recently found 3,362 individual book bans by schools K-12 impacting 1,557 titles. As a result of the new “don’t say gay”...