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The rise in hate crimes against the Sikh community prompted Manmohan Kaur of Naperville, a professor of mathematics at Benedictine University in Lisle, to apply for a grant from Interfaith America to promote healing.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, has never been so busy.

More than 1,500 books have been banned in the US, with a particular focus on titles relating to race and the LGBTQ+ community.  

Out of the top six banned titles, four deal with queer themes.

In 98 percent of cases, the school districts didn't follow First Amendment protections to ensure that government officials don't ban or punish free speech...

At a hearing on rampant book banning, half of the Republicans wasted time grandstanding about unrelated topics like Twitter, Hunter Biden's laptop, and masking.

Past nine months have seen censorship effort ‘unparalleled in its intensity’, with books on race and LGBTQ issues singled out

A dramatic escalation in book-banning in recent months by conservatives has targeted many LGBTQ+ and race-related titles. But some works stand out among the 1,145 targeted so far.

Over 1,000 books were banned in schools in the past year, with bans disproportionately targeting books on race and the LGBTQ community.

Parents are challenging or banning books in school libraries and classrooms more than ever before, with two highly contentious works on LGBTQ identity the lead targets of conservatives' wrath.