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Who is creating the filters and why are they necessary when materials already have a rating? The clarification that muddies the problem.
This made up rating system with no provenance or explanation of its development is supposed to help libraries how?
South Carolina's Department of Education even hired a Bob Jones graduate to lobby on behalf of their destructive bill using taxpayer money.
What happens at the schools does not stop at the schools. Book banners move the goal posts to the public library.
Seven states have put anti-book ban measures into law so far.
The forthcoming YA anthology BANNED TOGETHER mixes poetry, prose, comics, memoir, and more to highlight contemporary book banning.
It's a clever way for Brave Books to sell $180 kits of their books to hosts and market their right-wing propaganda.
Learn from a team of library advocates in Alabama who took action against book bans in their community.
Though not as robust as when initially proposed, the bill emphasizes the professional expertise of public library workers across the state.
Handing the superintendent THE HANDMAID'S TALE at graduation was not a stunt. It was to make a point after a year of battling book bans.