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Books that tell the stories of Black and LGBTQ people or by authors in those communities were among the 10 most challenged titles in 2021, the American Library Association said. As the efforts to ban ...

In a pandemic year, many of us turned to books — many of them supplied by Seattle Public Library, which this week released its list of its most checked-out books of 2021. Its most popular title, Brit ...

The bans affected 1,648 unique titles, many featuring LGBTQ+ themes or characters of color. At least 50 national, state and local groups are helping to drive the challenges, a few of which comprise ...

The United States has seen a major uptick in the number of attempted book bans. Last year, the American Library Association tracked 729 challenges to library, school or university teaching material, ...

Over the past year, the challenges that teachers, students, and our communities have faced reinforce the value of social and emotional learning, mindfulness, character development, self-compassion, ...

As conservatives across the country continue their fight to ban books from library shelves, the American Library Association (ALA), along with the Banned Books Week Coalition, is currently hosting its ...

U.S. publishers sold 825.7 million print books in 2021, up 8.9% over the previous year, but Pew data shows that the share of Americans who read print books remained flat over that period, with readers ...

Book banning is not new — in the U.S. alone the practice goes back to Puritan times, when Thomas Morton's book "New English Caanan" and others opposing this way of life were tossed from Massachusetts.

The rising number of school districts voting to remove certain books from school libraries has been making headlines for months at this point, as works by authors ranging from Toni Morrison to Art ...