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The number of bans and restrictions in the U.S. rose 33% in the last school year, according the report from free speech group PEN America. Florida had more bans than any other state, followed by Texas and Missouri.
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Michael Harriot unpacks American history to reveal the “Black AF” history inside.
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Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias told the U.S. Senate panel that public libraries have become “thunderdomes of controversy and strife” across the country.
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The policy comes more than a year after the Missouri Department of Corrections banned people from receiving paper mail in prison.
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In her new book, Aisha Harris shares her experiences as a Black, suburban, '90s-kid-turned-30-something, city-dwelling journalist while digging into the shifting ways we interact with pop culture — and how it touches us in ways we may not even realize.
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Dive into a good beach read this summer with recommendations from two local librarians, Tammy Albohaire and Maryann Brickey.
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Citing a “vitriolic strain of white nationalism,” Gov. JB Pritzker signed the measure withholding state grant money from libraries if they ban books.
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Marian O'Shea Wernicke’s new novel is out this week.
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Facing budget threats and efforts to criminalize books, Missouri librarians are fighting back.
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Lucy Ferriss wrote ‘The Misconceiver’ as fiction 25 years ago. Now its dystopian world seems to reflect reality.