Nearly 700 books, including celebrity bestsellers, banned in Orange County, Florida
Nearly 700 books, including recent bestsellers by Jon Stewart and Amy Poehler and classics by Maya Angelou, Ovid, and Marcel Proust, were removed from classrooms in Orange County, Florida,… More
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Hosts PEN America and Others for Roundtable on Book Bans
Pressley introduced the Books Save Lives Act, which PEN America welcomes in its efforts to increase access to diverse books and document the negative impact that book banning has… More
Spineless Shelves: Two Years of Book Banning
As 2023 comes to a close, this data summary examines the insidious trend of book banning in public schools over the last two academic years, drawing from data collected… More
Stand with the banned – EOY 2023 Florida effort — Meta and search landing only
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More Than 300 Titles, Including Numerous Literary Classics, Banned In Collier County, Florida
Collier County Public Schools in Florida is making news for removing over 300 books from its school libraries from all grade levels. More
PEN America: What’s at Stake in Book Banning Movement Is ‘Traditions of Freedom and Democracy for Us All’
PEN America's Jonathan Friedman testified that what's at stake in book ban movement is "Whether we can live in a diverse society that upholds our traditions of freedom and… More
These 450 Books Were Banned in Iowa
Schools across Iowa pulled at least 450 books – including the Holocaust memoirs Maus by Art Spiegelman and Night by Elie Wiesel, dozens of classics, and books written for… More
Ali Velshi on Reading as an Act of Resistance
Ali Velshi speaks to PEN America about how his new podcast, Velshi Banned Book Club, is an "act of resistance" against the epidemic of book banning. More
Stand with the banned – Fall 2023 Florida effort
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