Since July 2021, PEN America has documented more than 22,800 cases of book bans across 45 states and 451 public school ...

PEN considers a book “banned” if it was removed from the classroom or library circulation, either permanently or while the ...

The Trump administration has emerged as the newest force fueling campaigns to restrict materials related to race, racism and ...

The Sunshine State topped PEN America’s list for the third straight year, as it tallied more than 2,300 instances of book ...

Four years since book bans proliferated, the movement’s spread to the federal level is creating "unprecedented" pressure for ...

According to a new report from a literary access group, Tennessee ranks third in the nation for the highest number of books ...

"A book ban, to us, is any time a book that was previously available to a student is no longer available based on the content ...

In the 2024-25 school year, book bans affected more than 3,700 unique titles in 87 school districts across 23 states, ...

In all, Hillsborough had the second-most titles pulled of any school district in the U.S. during the year ending in June, ...

A trio of Houston-area school districts accounted for nearly half of the 1,781 books banned in Texas over the 2024-2025 ...

A free speech advocacy group warned book censorship in public schools across the United States has become “rampant and common ...

Plus, a new PEN America study, screenings of ‘The Librarians,’ the Books Unbanned program and a read-in are planned.