School board tried to ban these Black authors in schools but board forgot it is here for students

Christina and Renee Ellis both attend a predominantly white high school in Pennsylvania, and they both were affected when the school joined a wave of others in banning books written by Black authors. …

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 …

Word of advice on banning Black authors: Don't

A resident of Katy, Texas, a city about 30 miles west of Houston, penned a message to Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator Jerry Craft six months ago that some of his books were being pulled …

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. 

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'How fitting is this rebuke to GOP racism?' It's like Toni Morrison was speaking directly to GOP mom

It’s not uncommon for the literary greats of earlier generations to speak wisdom that seems unbound by time, but the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison seemed to just do so effortlessly. …

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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What if GOP pushed school ban on planes instead of critical race theory?

In my work reporting on critical race theory, I don’t think I’ve effectively communicated how scary it is to understand what’s happening and what’s been happening in this country’s education system …

Fox News refuses $184k advertisement because it says Jan. 6. riot actually happened

On Sunday, Fox News decided not to take advertiser money in order to make a very principled point: The insurrection at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021 wasn’t a big deal. …