Students in one Pennsylvania school district are not allowed to read a biography of the first Black President, Barack Obama. In some Tennessee classrooms, a nonfiction comic book about the atrocities of the Holocaust is banned. And one school district in Wisconsin banned from libraries a picture book about a gay rights activist who was assassinated. In the last nine months, hundreds of books across dozens of states are being banned at an alarming rate.
Md. LGBTQ community, people of color in the crosshairs of ‘banned book’ movement
April 18, 2022