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PEN America Needs Your Help Join us to #FreeTheBooks by taking action and making your voice heard. Download the Index…
Writers, readers, and activists gathered across the country for Banned Books Week 2024 to defend the right to read.
PEN America’s fall 2022 Index of Banned Books found 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles. This…
For the last three school years, PEN America has recorded instances of book bans in public schools nationwide. In that…
PEN America has been at the forefront of documenting and defending against the unprecedented rise of school book bans nationwide.…
The book ban crisis is often referred to by its numbers. A rising number of bans, more states impacted, more…
(NEW YORK)— PEN America will join libraries, readers and writers nationwide on Saturday, 10/19, Freedom to Read Day of Action,…
Censorship has swept the United States in the past two years. Here are ways you can fight book bans in…
Katie Blankenship, PEN America’s Florida director, said: “School libraries are not state propaganda centers. They are meant to be sites…
