Book Bans
The modern wave. School-board removals and district lists, the titles pulled most often, the parents and librarians on both sides of it, lawsuits, and the counts published each year by the ALA and PEN.
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40 moments in this segment.
- - Banned Books Week Brookfield Library 2008. Banned Books Week at Brookfield Library (2008)
- - Banned Books Week list of challenged books University of St. Francis Library. Banned and challenged books, library displays, protests and censorship campaigns. Modern photograph.
- - What are we hiding in the USF library banned books display. Banned and challenged books, library displays, protests and censorship campaigns. Modern photograph.
- - Writers, publishers and censorship. A DW arts programme on banned books and the pressures placed on writers and publishers internationally.
- - Banned Books Display. Banned and challenged books, library displays, protests and censorship campaigns. Modern photograph.
- - Library book ban protest. Banned and challenged books, library displays, protests and censorship campaigns. Modern photograph.
- - The history of banned books. A PBS Storied episode tracing the long record of banning and burning books and the reasons given for it.
- - Banned Books Week: resisting self-censorship. A British Library panel on how writers and publishers anticipate objections and censor themselves before anyone bans a book.
- - School librarians on the upsurge in removal attempts. PBS NewsHour interviews school librarians about the increase in challenges to books in their collections.
- - A nationwide effort to ban books. PBS NewsHour reports on the growth of organised book challenges in American schools and libraries.
- - An unburnable edition of The Handmaid's Tale. Reuters reports on a fireproof copy of Atwood's novel auctioned as a protest against book banning.
- - PEN America on book bans and censorship. A public television programme interviewing PEN America about its tracking of book removals.
- - Roald Dahl's books rewritten. France 24 reports on the publisher's revisions to Dahl's children's books and the reaction.
- - Louisiana librarians and activists over book removals. PBS NewsHour reports from Louisiana on the confrontation between librarians and campaigners seeking removals.
- - The fight over banning books. CBS Sunday Morning covers a school-board dispute, interviewing parents and librarians on both sides.
- - Judy Blume on the current wave of book bans. The author, whose books were challenged in the 1980s, responds to renewed removal campaigns.
- - Penguin Random House and PEN America sue over Florida removals. A local news report on litigation brought by a publisher and a free-expression group against a school district.
- - Book banning in Utah. PBS Utah examines removals in the state, hearing from librarians, parents and legislators.
- - Responding to book challenges in schools. A workshop for educators on how challenges are filed and what a reconsideration process involves.
- - PEN America's Kasey Meehan on book bans in Florida. A public television interview with PEN America's Freedom to Read programme director about the state's removals.
- - Book bans, or are they? A free-speech debate. A Hoover Institution discussion questioning how the term book ban is applied and where curation ends and censorship begins.
- - Book bans and school libraries. A C-SPAN programme setting out the arguments made by advocates and opponents of removing books from school collections.
- - Tools for libraries facing book challenges. An American Library Association session on the reconsideration process and how libraries handle formal complaints.
- - A researcher on library book challenges. Shannon Oltmann presents research findings on how librarians actually experience and handle challenges.
- - Ira Wells on book banning. A critic argues against removal campaigns while also examining objections raised from within the political left.
- - PEN America on book banning. France 24 interviews a PEN America representative about its Banned in the USA reporting.
- - Book bans in the US and Argentina compared. DW reports on removal campaigns in two countries and presents the arguments made on each side.
- - Publishers enter the book banning fight. A report on major publishers taking legal action over school book removals in the United States.
- - Public school librarians and the fight over book bans. PBS NewsHour reports on a documentary following librarians facing challenges to books in their collections.
- - Stephen King tops the list of censored authors in US schools. AP reports on figures naming the authors whose books were most often removed from American school libraries.
- - A critic of sensitivity readers in publishing. Adam Szetela argues that sensitivity reading has reshaped editorial decisions in trade publishing.
- - The ALA president on book challenges. American Library Association president Sam Helmick on the current wave of challenges and how libraries respond.
- - Freedom to publish, freedom to read. A publishing-industry panel on the obligations of publishers when titles come under pressure.
- - The Librarians documentary on censorship and the freedom to read. ABC News covers a documentary about American librarians caught in disputes over which books schools may hold.
- - Military families object to book removals in base schools. PBS NewsHour reports on the Pentagon's removal of books from Department of Defense schools and the response from families.
- - Book restrictions in American prisons. KPBS investigates the scale of book bans inside prisons, which restrict far more titles than schools do.
- - Book bans remain at record highs, ALA says. The Associated Press reports the American Library Association's annual count of challenged and removed titles.
- - Beyond banned books: censoring African diasporic literature. A panel on which books get challenged and the arguments made for and against removal.
- - Banned books and freedom of expression. A Gresham College lecture surveying the history and legal theory of book banning.
- - Massachusetts signs a Freedom to Read law. A local news report on state legislation intended to limit book removals from libraries and schools.