It's not just 'Maus.' Here are some more targets of the rising tide of book-banning

Maus landed back on bestseller lists in the wake of its banning from the eighth-grade curriculum by a Tennessee school board. But it’s just one very prominent book among the hundreds or thousands that …

Missouri parent who tried to ban books for being too sexually explicit faces molestation charges

A Missouri father who supported the banning of books—and even assisted in a book-banning presentation in front of a school board this past October—has been accused of a “felony charge of second-degree …

Tennessee school board tries to defend banning 'Maus.' It's not a success

The McMinn County, Tennessee, school board issued a statement defending its removal of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus to teach eighth-graders about the Holocaust. Their defense is a …

GOP lawmaker in Oklahoma hawks book-banning bill with $10,000 per day fine to school librarians

An Oklahoma state senator is pushing for two bills that would give parents the power to remove any book in a public school library they find objectionable. Meaning any book mentioning sex or the …

San Antonio-area school district scrubs 400 books, most by Black, brown, LGBTQ authors

Just like their Puritan brethren, credited with banning the first book in 1637 in the U.S., Republicans in Texas have jumped into the business of book banning and censorship with both feet. 

A San …

Book-banning Karen and Virginia school board member sets her sights on Toni Morrison's 'Bluest Eye'

Virginia Beach at-large school board member Victoria Manning—aka book-banning Karen, aka non-reading pro-censorship Karen—is going after American literature she clearly doesn’t understand. 

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