A few years ago, I taught a high school seminar class in civics and democracy at a New York charter school. My goal for the course was for students to see that the U.S. Constitution isn’t an ancient, ...

Major publishing companies and authors Friday argued that a federal judge should deny Florida’s request to dismiss a lawsuit over the removal of school library books, saying a controversial state law ...

For 30 years, the precedent set in Campbell v. St. Tammany Parish School Board court ruling has barred government officials and librarians in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana from removing books ...

TALLAHASSEE — Major publishing companies and authors have argued that a federal judge should deny Florida’s request to dismiss a lawsuit over the removal of school library books, saying a ...

Texas county officials urged the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday to overturn circuit precedent in their challenge to a court order requiring that eight books about sex, ...

First, she said, she received an email from one of her daughter's teachers asking for students to return their library books and saying the library would be closed indefinitely. Around the same time, ...

Rutherford County school officials recently upset First Amendment advocates by pulling 160 more books from libraries for pending obscenity reviews by librarians. The district's new total of pulled ...

On Thursday April 3, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries held a web seminar titled “Book Bans and Your Right to Read.” The webinar featured a lecture from UMass librarian Laura Quilter ...

As 2024 comes to an end, Florida is turning a page — and then a ton more, since the state's lawyers are likely looking through court documents tied to its First Amendment fights. It's been a big year ...

In a major case on public library censorship, a federal appellate court ordered officials of a rural Texas county to replace eight books that had been removed from public libraries, including those on ...