The Rutherford County Board of Education decision to ban six books, including one with word, "masturbation," upset free ...

BookTok, the most well-read corner of TikTok, has elevated self-published authors, creators and businesses. Here's the impact ...

Grubbs has built a “book sanctuary” at every Broward branch, showcasing a variety of stories. They include banned school ...

Publisher Lee & Low, using the CCBC's statistics from 1994 – 2012, found that while 37% of the U.S. population are people of color, only 10% of the books include multicultural content ... In ...

What to know about Iowa’s ban on school books, LGBTQ+ topics halted by a judge A federal judge in Iowa has temporarily blocked key parts of a state law that would ban books from school libraries ...

as a part of Banned Books Week. This week celebrates the freedom to read nationwide. Monday's book is "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov. Reason for banning: Nabokov's short novel has been banned in ...

Trans star Dylan Mulvaney and former professional skier Gus Kenworthy have launched their own LGBTQ+ book clubs to fight for the right to read banned titles. The actress and out former Olympian ...

Stephen King wasn't best pleased when a state in the USA banned more than 50 of his books in schools. Florida undertook the decision in a move that saw children restricted from dozens of books ...

UUM professor Kamarul Zaman Yusoff admits no such action was taken, even when PAS's Takiyuddin Hassan was law minister.

Conversely, 15 states introduced legislation in 2024 that would punish, sometimes severely, those who oversee collections that include books targeted by banners. Legal protections for banned books in ...