Dr. Danielle Sachdeva and Dr. Wes Whitaker received an invitation from publisher IGI Global to work on "Supporting Students' Intellectual Freedom in Schools: The Right to Read," a new book about ...

With censorship and book bans still on the rise, defending intellectual freedom remains vital. And one powerful way to defend intellectual Freedom is is to honor those who fight for it. In that spirit ...

In 2023, the American Library Association documented 1,247 demands to censor library books and resources. From 2010-2019, popular titles such as "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Hunger Games" and even ...

When I studied American literature in high school back in the mid-1960s, the books I most enjoyed were contemporary novels about young people. Holden Caulfield in “Catcher in the Rye” seemed ...

CHICAGOCHICAGO — School librarian Jamie Gregory has been called a “pedophile” and “groomer,” bombarded with private messages threatening harm, accused of distributing pornography in schools, and had ...

October 1-7 celebrates Right to Read Week in Michigan, a time dedicated to promoting intellectual freedom and advocating against book bans in schools and libraries across the state. Owner of ...

Ava Kirtley raised money to purchase books from frequently banned lists and gave them away to teens in Walla Walla, Washington. Ava Kirtley was a high school junior when she first learned about ...

Sitting in a meeting with Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya in 2023, Dan Novack knew he had to make a choice. States across the country were passing laws intended to remove titles from school ...

In the midst of my visit to Yad Vashem last summer, I approached an exhibit with books scattered across a shallow divot in the floor of the concrete building. They are symbolic of the over 25,000 ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- School librarian Jamie Gregory has been called a "pedophile" and "groomer," bombarded with private messages threatening harm, accused of distributing pornography in schools, and had ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (AP) — School librarian Jamie ...