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Showing posts with label book ban. Show all posts
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley’s Roots under 2022 state law
With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves…
Sunday, August 17, 2025
‘State-driven censorship’: new wave of book bans hits Florida school districts | US book bans | The Guardian
The board issued a harsh warning to the Hillsborough county school district in May, saying that if they didn't remove "pornographic" titles from their library, formal legal action could ensue. More than 600 books were pulled as a result, and the process was expected to cost the district $350,000.
The books taken off the school shelves included The Diary of Anne Frank and What Girls Are Made of by Elana K Arnold. None of them were under formal review by the district, and they hadn't been flagged by local parents as potentially inappropriate. Parents with children in the school system even had the opportunity to opt their children out of a particular reading, without removing them from the class for everyone…
These bans often target authors of color, female writers and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Books that educate about any of these experiences, or that document historical periods, are the recipients of frequent censorship attacks…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/florida-new-book-bans
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Federal judge guts major portion of Florida’s book ban, in a blow to DeSantis
A judge said a law allowing parents to challenge books over purportedly pornographic content was overbroad and unconstitutional…
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/florida-book-ban-illegal-desantis-rcna225288
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Rightwing groups across US push new bans to limit ‘obscene’ books in libraries
Critics say bans would hinder rights as proponents would impose their beliefs on others who don't share their views…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/new-book-bans-library-schools
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US federal judge | Books | The Guardian
Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionally…
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Democrats Demand Pete Hegseth Halt Book Bans in Military Schools | HuffPost Latest News
In their letter, House Democrats highlight other books that were reportedly purged from DoDEA schools, including a picture book about the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a single chapter on sexuality and gender used in Advanced Placement psychology, a reading of "A Nation of Immigrants" in a social studies lesson for fourth graders, and a story about a girl who doesn't like her freckles but eventually learns to love them, titled "Freckleface Strawberry," by actor Julianne Moore.
"These Orwellian book purges seriously restrict the spectrum of knowledge and literature available to military families," they wrote to Hegseth...
Monday, February 24, 2025
Thursday, January 2, 2025
An X-Rated Book: Sex & Obscenity In the Bible — Freedom From Religion Foundation
"Let us introduce you to parts of the Holy Bible which you have not heard about in sermons from the pulpit, that may shock and dismay you and should certainly convince you that the bible ought to be X-rated.
Below you will find a pornographic view of sex and women, lewdness, depravity and sexual violence often ordered or countenanced by the biblical deity. Don't take our word for it-look it up for yourself…"
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Texas book ban law causes a school district to remove Bible from libraries
Some parents and elected officials protested the removal of the religious text. In a 9 December school board meeting, Canyon ISD parent Regina Kiehne said: "It seems absurd to me that the Good Book was thrown out with the bad books."
"It just makes sense to have the Word of God in our school library," she continued. "After all, it is the book of wisdom. It is the bestselling book of all time; it is historically accurate, scientifically sound, and most importantly, life-changing."…
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Florida education officials report hundreds of books removed from schools
American classics such as Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain are among those that have been pulled. Contemporary novels by bestselling authors such as Margaret Atwood and Stephen King have also been removed.
Members of the Florida Freedom to Read Project, a group comprised of public school parents, said the measure has led to an unprecedented rise in censorship, mostly driven by conservative interest groups, and has limited students' access to diverse literature…
Multiple school districts in Florida have drawn legal challenges for restricting students' access to books. Escambia county, Florida, was sued in January after removing dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and other books due to content that was deemed to depict "sexual conduct"…
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Texas library board wrongly labels Wampanoag history book as fiction
If government officials can dismiss a well-researched, factual account of history as fiction, then what other truths will they try to silence?
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Monday, September 2, 2024
Publishers and authors sue Florida education officials over book bans - The Washington Post
Hayes, the mother of a student in Orange County, stated in the suit that she wants her child to be able to read books such as "Love in the Time of Cholera," — a book by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez that she said was removed from her child's classroom — without experiencing any roadblocks or "stigma associated with reading books that have been falsely branded as 'pornographic' or otherwise inappropriate."
Friday, August 30, 2024
Major Publishers Sue Florida Over Banned School Library Books - The New York Times
Education officials have broad discretion over the books in school libraries, but the Supreme Court has said their judgment "may not be exercised in a narrowly partisan or political manner."
The publishing companies said in the Thursday lawsuit that they "do not seek to prevent Florida school districts from ensuring that school libraries do not contain obscene books," and are not asking for the entire law to be overturned.
But they argued that books that get removed from libraries are often described as "pornographic," while in practice, they "are not remotely obscene."…
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Anatomy of a book banning: TO BE DESTROYED I MSNBC FILMS
TO BE DESTROYED follows author Dave Eggers as he meets with students and teachers in the Rapid City, SD school district where his novel, “The Circle”, was pulled from shelves along with works by Alison Bechdel, Stephen Chbosky, Bernardine Evaristo and Imbolo Mbue. Through footage of heated school board meetings, community rallies and interviews with locals, we learn how these books were designated “to be destroyed”.
Sunday, August 11, 2024
Advocates react to Utah ban of 13 books in schools and libraries: ‘It’s a tragedy’
Utah is first in the US to outlaw titles statewide they deem 'indecent' as free speech advocates worry about impact…
Monday, June 10, 2024
Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’
In its decision, the appellate court declared that "government actors may not remove books from a public library with the intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree".
It added: "This court has declared that officials may not 'remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the idea contained in those books and seek by their removal to prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion.'"…
Friday, June 7, 2024
Parents sue over Florida’s book challenge rules - POLITICO
The group suing contends that this policy, as executed by the state, excludes parents "opposed to censorship" because only books local officials deny removing can be appealed...
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