Book Banning

Up Close and Not So Personal with 50 Shades of Gray author, E L James

Julie Gerstenblatt | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Suburbs, Wives, 50 Shades of Grey, El James, Erotica, Porgnography, Book Banning, Censorship, Lyss Stern, Mothers, Divalysscious, Women News

I don't want E L James to be the poster child for my personal understanding of sexuality or for woman's sexual empowerment in a general sense. And the good news is, neither does E L James.

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'Fifty Shades' Now Banned From Libraries In 3 States

AP | TAMARA LUSH | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Fifty Shades of Grey, Book Banning Libraries, Fifty Shades Banned, Fifty Shades of Gray, Libraries, Fifty Shades Banning, Book Banning, Books News

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Public libraries in several states are pulling the racy romance trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" from shelves or deciding n...

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Feds Open Civil Rights Cases on Tucson Schools Under Pedicone's Latino Crackdown: "Sheriff Arpaio of American Schools?"

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Office of Civil Rights, Education, Department of Education, Latino, Tucson, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Schools, John Pedicone, TUSD Book Ban, Book Banning, Tusd, Education News

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has opened investigations into possible violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act in Tucson. Not that TUSD has bothered to inform the district's taxpayers of the investigation.

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San Antonio Names Tafolla First Poet Laureate, as Tucson Banishes Her Classics From Classrooms

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Book Banning, Tucson, Wings Press, Texas, Arizona, Carmen Tafolla, Latino Literature, Censorship, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Chicano, Books News

One of the most innovative poets and authors over the last 25 years, Tafolla's genre-bending bilingual verse from San Antonio's West Side barrio has given voice to several cherished volumes of poetry and stories.

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Underground Libraries Offer Access To Allegedly Banned Books

The Huffington Post | Laura Steiner | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Video, Tucson Unified School District, Librotraficante, Arturo Rosales, Book Banning, Hispanic Heritage, Sandra Cisneros, Immigration, Richard Delgado, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Tusd, Latino Voices News

An 'underground library' movement is starting to develop in Houston, San Antonio, Albuquerque and Tucson as part of the 'Librotraficante Caravan' , a...

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Let Us Now Praise What's Right With Arizona: Nationally Celebrated Tucson Educator Sean Arce

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Sean Arce, Sean Arce Tucson, Tucson School District, Arizona Book Ban, Book Banning, Mexican American Studies Tucson, Tucson MAS, Tucson Ethnic Studies, Tucson Mexican American Studies, Tucson Book Ban, Video, Education News

In the footsteps of legendary Tucson Mayor Estevan Ochoa, who also fought against a hairbrained legislature to bring public education into Arizona, Arce has emerged as one of the most beloved leaders in the state today.

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Has Tucson School District Become Little Rock, Arkansas 1954? New Court Suit on Segregation Violations Over Mexican American Studies Crackdown

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Ethnic Studies, Tucson Ethnic Studies, Arizona Ethnic Studies, Tucson Unified School District, Arizona Ethnic Studies Ban, Book Banning, Education News

The questions beg: How much lower and blatantly racist will Tucson school officials go? Will Tucson community leaders, like Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, stand by and watch the reckless measures of "demagogic extremists"?

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Teaching Tucson: More National Groups Demand Release of Detained Books, As Teachers Adopt Banned Mexican American Studies

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Mexican American Studies, TUSD Book Ban, Book Ban Boycott, Tucson Ethnic Studies, Arizona Book Ban, Tucson-Book-Ban, No History Is Illegal, Book Banning, Education News

Hundreds of schools launched a historic teach-in movement today to incorporate lesson plans from the banished Mexican American Studies program in Tucson in their own classrooms.

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Nabokov, Garcia Marquez "Justify Paedophilia" Says Russian Church

AP | By MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Religion, Banned Books Week, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Book Banning, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox, Books News

MOSCOW -- A senior Russian Orthodox official claimed Wednesday that novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez justify pedophilia and said ...

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Which Classic Children's Books Were Almost Banned?

American Library Association | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Book Bannings, American Library Association, Banned Books Week, Children's Books, Banned Books, Book Banning, Books News

There were 346 recorded attempts to remove materials from libraries in 2010, and more than 11,000 attempts recorded since OIF began compiling information on book challenges in 1990.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Ten Most Frequently Banned Books

Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Ala, School Libraries, Banned Books, Libraries, Banned Books Week, Most Often Banned, Book Banning, Banning Books, Banned Books 2010, Top Ten Banned Books, Video, Books News

To mark Banned Books Week (Sept 24-Oct 1), we've created an infographic to highlight the most banned or challenged books of last year. Click below to ...

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More Book Banning: This Time Its 'Norweigan Wood'

Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Gay Books, Summer Reading, Chuck Earling, Banned Books, Books We Love, Norweigan Wood Book, Books, Book Banning, Jersey Book Banning, Young Adult Books, Homosexual Books, Monroe Township, Norwegian Wood, Murakami, Tweak, Books News

In a month from now, multiple organizations nationwide will participate in "Banned Books Week," an annual event that celebrates first amendment rights...

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Seeya, Sherlock Holmes

AP | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Virginia, Education, Reading Lists, Virginia Schools, Books, School Reading Lists, Book Banning, Mormons, Mormonism, Charlottesville Virginia, Charlottesville Schools, Education News

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Sherlock Holmes' first adventure has been removed from sixth-grade reading lists in a central Virginia county. Brette Steve...

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Vonnegut Library And ACLU Respond To Missouri School's Book Banning

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Aclu, Public Schools, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, Missouri Schools, Classic Novels, Vonnegut Library, Missouri ACLU, Book Banning, High School Reading, Twenty Boy Summer, Missouri Book Banning, Books News

In response to the Republic, Mo., school board's controversial decision last week to remove "Slaughterhouse-Five" from its high school library and cur...

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Missouri School District Bans 'Slaughterhouse-Five'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Public Schools, School Libraries, Missouri Public Schools, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Libraries, Book Banning, Missouri, Republic Missouri, Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer, Video, Culture News

The school board in Republic, Mo., voted 4-0 to eliminate Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" and Sarah Ockler's "Twenty Boy Summer" from the high s...

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Istanbul Publisher Faces Obscenity Trial For Releasing Book

AP | By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Ruhi Ozbilgic, Islam, Istanbul, Turkey, Irfan Sanci, Book Banning, Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Suha Sertabiboglu, The Exploits of a Young Don Juan, The Soft Machine, Books News

ISTANBUL -- Half a century after a U.S. obscenity trial, the work of Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs is heading back to court, this time i...

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What's The Only Book South Carolina Prisoners Are Allowed To Read?

thestate.com | MEG KINNARD | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Aclu, Berkeley County Jail, American Civil Liberties Union, The Bible, Book Banning Policies, South Carolina, Book Banning, Books News

The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday asked a judge to block a South Carolina jail’s rules over what items inmates may receive while the g...

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NH Parents Object To Book That Calls Jesus 'Vagrant'

AP | HOLLY RAMER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jesus Book, School Books, Nickel and Dimed, Aimee Taylor, Dennis Taylor, Book Banning, Education News

BEDFORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire couple told a school board Monday that their son's civil rights were violated when he was assigned a book that r...

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Those Who Ban Books Find Strength In Numbers

usatoday.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Censorship, Banned Books, Censored Books, Censored, Book Banning, Books News

Shortly after the fall semester began this year, Wesley Scroggins, a parent of three in Republic, Mo., publicly criticized the local school district f...

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Everyone's a Little Bit Book Bannerish

Monica Edinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teaching, Censorship, Children's Books, Book Banning, Books News

It is Banned Book Week, when we draw attention to books that are kept out of readers' hands, acts of censorship, and efforts to ban books across the U...

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Yes, There Is Still Book Banning in the United States

Roberta Stevens | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Books, Book Banning, Books News

Danger does not arise from viewpoints other than our own; the danger lies in allowing others to decide for us and our communities which reading materials are appropriate.

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Iranian Woman At Risk Of Stoning For Circulating Banned Book

The Guardian | Alexandra Topping | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salman Rushdie, Book Banning, Satanic Verses, Iranian Book, Tehran, Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses, Iranian Regime, Stoned, Tehran Iran, Stonning, Banned Book, Books News

An Iranian woman accused by the Tehran regime of circulating copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses is at risk of being stoned and flogged if h...

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On Banning Books and Hunting Witches

Ronald Maxwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah Palin, Book Banning, Witchcraft, Thomas Muthee, Salman Rushdie, Wasilla Assembly of God, Politics News

Senator John McCain has inadvertently riled some murky Alaskan back-waters. And this is a good thing, because neither book banning nor witch hunting should go unnoticed or unexposed.

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