Book bans in public schools kept rising during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, and nearly a third of them were the direct result of newly enacted state laws, a new PEN America report says.

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According to the nonprofit free speech advocacy group PEN America, there have been nearly 16K book bans in U.S. public schools, libraries since 2021.

Over the past nearly two years, Republican politicians have pushed to remove books about the history of racism and LGBTQ identities from school library shelves. A new report by PEN America, a ...

PEN America today announced the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards finalists-a list of 54 authors and 11 translators recognized for exceptional works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, ...

All the most banned books of 2022, the year with the most book bans in two decades, were challenged for allegedly containing “sexually explicit” material, according to the American Library Association ...

May 31—The Silver Pen Award, a national program, was presented by the Kiwanis Club of Marietta Golden K in May 2022. This year Cobb County was represented by three outstanding 4th grade students — ...

Incumbent Emmanuel Macron became the first French president to be re-elected in 20 years. France’s election laid bare deep divisions among voters, who worried about inflation, the war in Ukraine and ...

Le Pen, however, scored her best-ever electoral showing. PARIS -- French President Emmanuel Macron is projected to win a second term in office after facing his far-right rival Marine Le Pen in a ...