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US book bans

News and analysis examining ongoing efforts to ban books in the US

June 2024

  • The cover of Amanda Jones' book, featuring the author wearing glasses and a red cardigan, standing in front of a library wall of books

    The US librarian who sued book ban harassers: ‘I decided to fight back’

    After Amanda Jones got death threats for speaking out against censorship, she sued her attackers and wrote a memoir

May 2024

  • book cover on top of barbed wire

    America’s unseen book bans: the long history of censorship in prisons

    Tens of thousands of books are banned in US prisons, in an often arbitrary process that limits education opportunities

March 2024

  • a man in a blue suit and blue tie stands next to an American flag

    Ron DeSantis’s next chapter in book bans backlash? Blame someone else

    The Florida governor has blamed the chaos over legislation he signed on teachers, librarians, political rivals – and now school principals

January 2024

  • A dictionary and a card catalog.

    Florida school district pulls dictionaries for ‘sexual conduct’ descriptions

    Officials say materials – including encyclopedias and other books – violate state law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis

December 2023

  • US-POLITICS-CONGRESS<br>US House of Representatives member-elect Maxwell Frost (C), Democrat of Florida, arrives for a group photo with member-elect Harriet Hageman (L), Republican of Wyoming, outside of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on November 15, 2022. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Book bans use ‘parental rights’ as cover to attack civil liberties, Democrat warns

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The Week in Patriarchy
    Republicans will do anything to ban books, even saying they cause porn addiction

    Arwa Mahdawi

November 2023

  • Governor Kim Reynolds, who signed the measure into law, speaks in an interview with the Associated Press on 8 November 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa.

    Iowa rights groups sue over law banning LGBTQ+ books and discussion in school

    Suit by several families and organizations seek to have law declared as violation of students’ and teachers’ free speech
  • books on a library shelf

    Missouri library will ban porn star book – after 20 people on waiting list read it

    St Charles city-county system to remove Bang Like a Porn Star: Sex Tips from the Pros after critics claim it is too sexually explicit
  • Pink performs in New York City on 5 November.

    Pink to distribute banned books at Florida tour dates

    Singer to give out 2,000 free copies of books in state that is center of hotbed of challenges to free speech

October 2023

  • Amanda Gorman

    Scholastic to separate books on race, gender and sexuality for book fairs

    Children’s book publisher will allow US districts to include or exclude separate list, a decision that has led to a backlash

September 2023

  • Gavin Newsom

    California bars schoolbook bans based on racial and gender teachings

  • Ron DeSantis<br>Gov. Ron DeSantis talks during a press conference before signing legislation on Monday, May 15, 2023, at New College of Florida in Sarasota, Fla. DeSantis signed a bill that blocks public colleges from using federal or state funding on diversity programs, addressing a concern of conservatives ahead of the Republican governor's expected presidential candidacy. The law, which DeSantis proposed earlier this year, comes as Republicans across the country target programs on diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

    ‘This is not a Trumpy, conservative education’: Florida’s controversial new SAT alternative

  • Opponents of DeSantis protest against his presidential candidacy in Miami, Florida.

    ‘Reading is resistance’: students and parents take on DeSantis’s book bans

  • The authors whose books were targeted were ‘most frequently female, people of colour and LGBTQ+ individuals’ … a display of banned books in a Barnes &amp; Noble bookshop in Pittsford, New York State.

    ‘Eating away at democracy’: book bans in US public schools rise by a third in a year

  • Texas teacher fired for showing Anne Frank graphic novel to eighth-graders

  • US book bans and attempted bans rise as efforts extend to public libraries

  • ‘Chilling’: Ariana Grande, Amanda Gorman and others sign letter against book bans

  • Texas was state with most book bans in 2022, report shows

  • ‘We’re facing another old enemy’: Rushdie warns against global authoritarianism

  • ‘Authoritarian regimes ban books’: Democrats raise alarm at Senate hearing

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