The attempts to censor, restrict or ban books in 2024 in the United States continued tosurpass pre-pandemic levels, while books with LGBTQ+ themes dominate the most-challenged list, advocacy groups ...

For the past several years, the Ocean Shores Public Library has been an active participant in Banned Books Week, which started Sunday and runs through Saturday this year. For the 2025 campaign, the ...

Book censorship is … becoming the norm? For those who honor the work and dedication of our librarians, booksellers, authors and fellow readers, that’s the disturbing conclusion of a just-published PEN ...

Milwaukee librarians are encouraging residents to pick up a banned book this week. Oct. 5 to 11 marks Banned Book Week, where libraries, schools and nonprofits nationwide work to raise awareness of ...

WASHINGTON — This week marks Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of literature that has drawn the ire of governments around the world. The American Library Association puts on the weeklong event ...

This week is Banned Books Week, an annual event in the U.S. that celebrates the freedom to read. PEN America has documented nearly 23,000 book bans in public schools nationwide since 2021, a number ...

The Bible along with books about serial killers and vampires were for sale at the Oddities & Curiosities Expo in Del Mar. (File photo by Chris Stone) National Banned Books Week may be drawing to an ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Banned Books Week is wrapping up, honoring what organizers call freedom to read. The American Library Association began Banned Books Week began in 1982, after challenges to books ...

A few years ago, I taught a high school seminar class in civics and democracy at a New York charter school. My goal for the course was for students to see that the U.S. Constitution isn’t an ancient, ...