Miami activist Iris Mogul tells WLRN about what first inspired her to start a banned books club, what keeps her motivated, and how she’s continuing to stand up for free speech and access to literature ...

Efforts to remove and limit access to books in schools and libraries have intensified in Arizona. Schools have pulled books from their collections, libraries have relocated sex-ed books to the top ...

Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help ...

A map shows which states banned the most books in the 2024-2025 school year. PEN America recorded 6,870 instances of books being pulled from school libraries across 23 states and in 87 public school ...

Book censorship is … becoming the norm? For those who honor the work and dedication of our librarians, booksellers, authors and fellow readers, that’s the disturbing conclusion of a just-published PEN ...

Laura Patranella makes it a priority to read at least one novel each year with her elementary school students, relishing both the depth of these works and students’ communal experience of talking ...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — The Gwinnett Stripers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, launched Hooked on Books, the ...

It also reminds us that censorship, no matter what the media platform, has no place in American society and needs to be defended.

Roughly half of children in elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan do not read books -- a 1.5-fold increase over ...