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I’m sure I remember reading the U.S. Naval Academy removed 400 books… many relating to civil rights and the Holocaust. Banning books is a huge red flag, and America’s heading into very, very dangerous territory. This petition’s definitely worth signing…
More and more books are being banned. SoCal libraries find a solution – Los Angeles Times
CaliforniaMore and more books are being banned. SoCal libraries find a solution
A worker shelves books at the Billie Jean King Main Library in Long Beach. The Long Beach Public Library is participating in Books Unbanned, a nationwide effort to provide access to books for young people. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times) By Annie GoodykoontzAug. 14, 2025 3 AM PT
There were 10,000 instances of book bans at public schools in the 2023-24 school year, according to PEN America. In 2024, 5,813 titles were challenged in public libraries and schools nationwide, says the American Library Assn.
“So many books for young people are being taken off the shelf,” said Fritzi Bodenheimer, spokesperson for the Brooklyn Public Library in New York. “If you’re a young person, you know, you’re 14 or 15 years old and you’re just discovering yourself and maybe you think that you might be a member of the LGBTQ community and all those books are taken off the shelf. What message does that send to you? That you’re a bad person? That you’re dangerous?”
To combat book censorship, some Southern California public libraries, including Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Diego, are joining libraries nationwide to provide access to online library cards. Children as young as 13 can get a free e-card to access the libraries’ catalog of e-books and audiobooks, without parental permission and without any challenges they may face to get a book in their local library.
Long Beach is the latest public library to join this effort, a project known as Books Unbanned that was started by the Brooklyn Public Library. The project’s website calls it a response to “support the freedom to read.”
Public schools and libraries in Texas, Tennessee and Florida faced the most challenges to book titles in 2024. In the American Library Assn.’s Top 10 Most Challenged Books report from that year, all titles mentioned were challenged for sexually explicit material; some were also cited for featuring LGBTQ+ content, depictions of drug use and sexual assault, and profanity.
Some parents filing complaints believe early access to content featuring these topics can confuse children, and they believe they should have more of a say in what their children read.
According to a national library survey conducted in 2023, 60% of respondents said that certain books should require either an age limit or parental permission to check out, while 57% of respondents believed parents should be notified when their child checks out a book. Also, 76% of respondents said that parents should be the ones to decide whether their children can check out books that focus on sexual education and racism.
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The #Trump Admin is #BanningBooks on #MilitaryBases. We Sued
On #military bases across the globe, books are disappearing from shelves. Posters of historical figures, like Frida Kahlo, are being removed from walls. Black History Month celebrations are being cancelled
This rampant #censorship is the result of the #DoD ’s new policies banning books, classroom discussions, events, & extracurriculars that relate to race & gender in military-run schools on bases around world
NOTHING SAYS MAGA QUITE LIKE THE BANNING OF BOOKS
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#Florida officials report hundreds of books removed from schools
#Beloved by #ToniMorrison, #NormalPeople by #SallyRooney and #SlaughterhouseFive by #KurtVonnegut, among books pulled
by Coral Murphy Marcos
Tue 12 Nov 2024 23.10 EST
"Florida’s department of education has released a list of more than 700 books that were 'removed or discontinued' from schools across the state after changes to a state law last year that allows parents and residents to challenge the content of #LibraryBooks.
"This year’s list, which has doubled in size from last year, includes titles such as Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney, and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
"The list comes after #HouseBill1069 went into effect last July, requiring school districts to set up a mechanism for parents to object to anything they consider pornographic or inappropriate.
"Since then hundreds of titles have been removed from elementary, middle and high school libraries. In Florida, 33 out of about 70 school districts #BannedBooks.
"American classics such as #BraveNewWorld by #AldousHuxley, #ForWhomTheBellTolls by #ErnestHemingway and The Adventures of #TomSawyer by #MarkTwain are among those that have been pulled. Contemporary novels by bestselling authors such as #MargaretAtwood and #StephenKing have also been removed.
"Members of the #FloridaFreedomToReadProject, a group comprised of public school parents, said the measure has led to an unprecedented rise in #censorship, mostly driven by conservative interest groups, and has limited students’ access to diverse #literature.
“'We believe in a fair, thorough, and public objection process that ensures decisions reflect the needs of each school community - not the broad, district-wide censorship we see today that’s inspired by the vague language in #HB1069 and ‘bad book’ lists like this one,' the group said in a statement.
“'Censorship is happening right here in Florida. Lists like this that include award-winning, #ClassicLiterature and books about #BanningBooks cannot be spun or shoved into a narrative about extremely targeted removals,' they added.
"#PENAmerica found that Florida and #Iowa recorded the highest number of book bans during the 2023-2024 school year, leading in the country with over 4,500 book bans in Florida and over 3,600 in Iowa. These bans have cost districts about $34,000 to $135,000 a year.
"A study on educational censorship in Florida found a 'climate of compliance, fear and stress' that threatens students’ academic performance and the well-being of both teachers and students'."
#BannedBooks #Censorship #FloridaSchools #Education #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ChristoFascism
#BanningBooks Is Just The Beginning.
The Scary Future Ahead If #Project2025 Is Successful
This week is Banned Books Week, a decades-long movement to end censorship and in affirmation of open access to information. The “fake news” epidemic is directly linked to book bans. This election, truth is on the ballot.
The Texas lawmaker who authored the state’s controversial book rating law wants the state attorney general to defend it in front of the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court blocked its enforcement earlier this year.
#News #BanningBooks #Education #KenPaxton #TexasNews #US5thCircuitCourtOfAppeals
Texas Rep. Jared Patterson, R-Frisco, made the request to Attorney General Ken Paxton after the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked enforcement of H.B. 900, which would require booksellers to rate books sold to schools.
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