banned books

Grammy-winning singer Pink is taking the fight against censorship to where she works.The pop star on Monday announced she was giving away thousands of banned books at concert stops in Florida, where book-banning has thrived under Gov. Ron…

Activists with the right-wing group Moms for Liberty in northwest Florida were filmed demanding that sheriff’s deputies investigate the circulation of a high school library book that one of them called “child pornography” and “a serious…

This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe.Moms for Liberty, the right-wing extremist group that aims to bring a conservative agenda to public education, set out to take over school boards…

An award-winning Canadian author’s last name recently led an Alabama library system to flag her children’s book as potentially “sexually explicit,” according to a local news report.The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library system added…

Last month, the Florida Department of Education revealed that more than 300 books had been removed from public school shelves in the state during the 2022-2023 school year.Under the pretense of keeping kids safe and preserving “parental…

CUMMING, Ga. (AP) — When Allison Strickland urged a suburban Atlanta school board in June to remove four books from school libraries, she was following a path cleared by Georgia’s Republican lawmakers.But after the bitterly debated Georgia…

Former President Barack Obama spoke out Monday against the rising number of book bans in American schools and libraries as “contrary to what has made this country great” and appeared in an Illinois public library’s TikTok video.In a…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday that the state would be picking up a conservative Southern California school district’s slack. Last month, the board for the Temecula Valley Unified School District, which has several…

One day in March, Katie Rinderle, a fifth-grade teacher in Cobb County, Georgia, read “My Shadow Is Purple” by Scott Stuart, which she had purchased at an in-school book fair, to her class. Now, she’s fighting to get her job back.In June, a…

It was not particularly surprising that Ryan Walters declared Oklahoma schools wouldn’t go “woke” under his leadership as he campaigned for a role that would give him power over the public school system. Many conservatives have championed…