Tag Archives | Book Ban

The booksellers’ revolt

Originally published: Texas Observer on March 11, 2024 by Matthew Patin (more by Texas Observer) | (Posted Mar 19, 2024)

The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on “explicitness” before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn’t comply.
The attack against the freedom to read and what to do about it

Originally published: Project Censored on November 30, 2023 by Steve Macek (more by Project Censored) | (Posted Dec 09, 2023)

During the past three years, the country has seen a dramatic increase in book bans at public and K-12 school libraries and in rightwing pro-censorship activism, usually targeting books that address race, gender identity, or sexuality.
100 million Russian books in line for ban

Originally published: In Defence of Marxism on June 6, 2022 by Jonathan Söderberg (more by In Defence of Marxism) | (Posted Jun 09, 2022)

Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute (part of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture), has claimed that they will begin working towards withdrawing over 100 million so-called ‘propaganda’ books from public libraries in Ukraine.