Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PEN America, which advocates for freedom of expression, defines a school book ban “as any action taken against a book based on its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cat reading a book Jordan Lye/Getty Images PEN has monitored the wheres and whys of censorship since 1922; the group defines book ...

The fight against book bans is entering a new phase, as the number of bans plummets but concerns grow that librarians and teachers, looking to stay out of the fray, are self-censoring. Data shows a ...

Book bans continue to surge. According to the American Library Association (ALA), the number of documented attempts to censor books continues to far exceed the numbers before 2020. Additionally, ...

A Banned Books Week display is at the Mott Haven branch of the New York Public Library in the Bronx borough of New York City on Saturday, October 7, 2023. The organization Authors Against Book Bans ...

A free speech advocacy group warned that book censorship in public schools across the United States has become "rampant and common," with book bans increasing significantly over the last few years.

When the Instagram account of free-expression institution PEN America dropped successive posts last week about cat and dog related books that have recently been challenged for inappropriate content in ...