Book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 school year with more than 10,000 books banned in public schools, according to PEN America. The spike reflects a renewed effort since 2021 to ban or ...

Children at a New York City school were reportedly given a "Black Lives Matter" coloring book that promotes the far-left group's various principles, including transgender affirmation.

"The letters of the Yup'ik language, they relate to something in our culture," says Corbett. "You won't see a coloring book that has fry bread in it … And so it's images from a part of who we ...

Nearly 6,000: Banned books in the U.S. since July 2021 3,362: Books banned in the 2022-23 school year, compared to 2,532 the year previous 1,557: Unique titles banned in the 2022-23 school year ...

Women of color alone penned almost a quarter of them. That’s even though authors of color make up just 10% of U.S. authors and write less than 5% of the most popular books in the U.S.

Over half of all book challenges made in the 2021-2022 school year came from just 11 adults. One woman said she read 73 books, scanning for sexually explicit content, and challenged 71 of them.

During Book Expo America 2011 we managed to get a brief look at the new Jetbook K12 and K12 Color from Ectaco. The Jetbook K12 is billed as an educational e-reader with tons more functionality ...

Spoon and her colleagues analyzed the 2,532 books removed in the 2021-2022 school year, when a significant wave of book bans swept across the U.S. Drawing on data from PEN America, an organization ...

In all, about 4,240 books were targets of censorship efforts last year, with about half of those books written by or including people of color and those from LGBTQ+ communities, the ALA found.

A New York City school is being investigated over hundreds of books allegedly tossed in trash, many of which were about people of color or related to LGBTQ identities.

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