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The highlights of a “Banned Book Readout” included Angela Davis’ taped reading from Toni Morrison and Johnetta Bench Cole’s talk and reading from Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged

A book wagon bearing commonly banned titles will stop at Kindred Stories in Houston Saturday to distribute hundreds of free books.

Book events throughout the metro area will be promoting literature and literacy on the eve of National Banned Book Week starting Sunday.

State lawyers couldnt even answer basic questions about how the law is supposed to work.

REUTERS/Callaghan O'HareA trio of judges on Monday gave the go-ahead for Texas to proceed with a book-ban law, which a Trump-appointed judge had halted earlier this month on constitutional grounds.Texas’ “Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources” (READER) Act requires booksellers to rate sexual content in all books sold to schools. Critics have decried the law as overbroad, unconstitutional, and designed to restrict access to books about gender an...

From the ordinary to the extraordinary, autobiography has it all. These books are the heartbeats of the human journey.

This week on Here and Now, Dr. Gerrard P. Bushell talks New Terminal One, plus the youngest certified private pilot in NY tells her story.

On this episode of Here and Now, we discuss Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Chelsea Film Festival and talk to NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.

Last year, the American Library Association got the most requests to ban books than any year since it started keeping count. From Yvette Walker: