Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The next Banned Books Week will be held September 22-28, 2024. The theme of this year’s event is Freed Between the Lines. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship.
How to Fight Book Bans: An Urgent, National Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi and The Emancipator. An online discussion on the national surge of book bans and their link to structural racism will take place Sun., Oct. 27, featuring author, historian and antiracism scholar Dr. Ibram X. …. Read More.
The CBLDF Banned Books Week Handbook is a free resource that gives you the scoop about what comics are banned, how to report and fight censorship, and how to make a celebration of Banned Books Week in your community!
The Banned Books Week Coalition is delighted to announce our theme for the 2021 celebration of the right to read: “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.” The annual event will take place September 26 – October 2, 2021.
To kick off the 2020 edition of Banned Books week, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom has unveiled the Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books for the past decade. The list features many of the most popular and acclaimed titles and writers in publishing, from Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants to Toni Morrison ...
Let Freedom Read Day. The freedom to read is under attack — let’s do something about it! On September 28, 2024, we’re asking everyone to get ready to vote for the freedom to read or to take at least one action to help defend books from censorship and to stand up for the library staff, educators, writers, publishers, and booksellers who ...
Libraries in every state faced another year of unprecedented attempts to ban books. In 2022, ALA tracked the highest number of censorship reports since the association began compiling data about library censorship more than 20 years ago.
Banned Books Week is an annual event that highlights the value of free and open access to information.
Every year, bookstores, libraries, universities, and organizations host engaging programs that spotlight censorship. Are you hosting an event for Banned Books Week? Putting up a display?
Virtual Read-Out Videos. Your words have power. Stand up to censorship and declare your literary freedoms by reading from a banned book or discussing censorship issues on camera.