PEN America’s annual report on banned books shows more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or permanently removed for the 2024-2025 school year. Three states account for 80% of those bans.

The 2024-2025 school year marked a sharp decline in book bans from the 2023-2024 school year, according to a report from PEN ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored and the country divided between states actively restricting works and those ...

Last week Lani Kawahara, who oversees the young adult section at Kauai’s largest library, set up her annual display to mark Banned Books Week, a national campaign that kicked off Sunday to spotlight ...

Many book lovers may not realize that some of the most popular books out there are also the most censored. It’s Banned Books Week, which highlights the need for free and open access to information in ...

With Americans’ free speech threatened by politicians’ bluster and federal agents swarming the region, welcome to Banned Books Week. Is there a better time to mark the annual observance of censorship ...

WASHINGTON — This week marks Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of literature that has drawn the ire of governments around the world. The American Library Association puts on the weeklong event ...

LOS ANGELES -- One of his year's Oscar-nominated documentary short films is about a timely topic involving education. It's called "The ABCs of Book Banning." It's not so much about the adults who are ...

A map shows which states banned the most books in the 2024-2025 school year. PEN America recorded 6,870 instances of books being pulled from school libraries across 23 states and in 87 public school ...