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Raise the Curtain Even before the pandemic, movie theaters on the South Fork were having a rough go of it, but there have been bright spots. As things stand, the Hampton Bays movie theater site is still being considered for a CVS, but the cinema is

BRADENTON — In the parking lot outside the school board meeting, she pulled a new black blazer over her “I Read Banned Books” T-shirt. She wanted them to take her seriously. “I’m nervous,” Heather Felton, 48, told her husband and older child that Tuesday evening in May. She squared her shoulders, pushed up her glasses, her big rainbow earrings dangling. The high school English teacher had ...

So far this school year, there have been more book bans in Florida than almost any other state, according to an analysis by the free expression advocacy group PEN America. The former president of the state's library association has acknowledged that advocates for intellectual freedom are "being out-organized."

There have been more book bans in Florida than almost any other state this school year. Advocates for intellectual freedom are "being out-organized."

This school year brought more book bans in Florida than almost any other state, according to an analysis by the free expression advocacy group PEN America.

While the scale of these efforts is unprecedented, attempts to censor libraries and school materials have a long and messy history in the U.S.

Canva At the start of 2023, in accordance with HB 1467 passed in 2022, Florida schools made national headlines as teachers and librarians covered shelves with tarps and removed books from circulation. Under the new law, all materials in school librar...

Stacker looked at 20 years worth of banned books data from the American Library Association to understand how book challenges have changed over time.

Stacker looked at 20 years worth of banned books data from the American Library Association to understand how book challenges have changed over time.

A Broward County public library system’s “I Read Banned Books” library cards are drawing concern from a Republican state lawmaker who said the taxpayer-funded agency is engaging in “a political stunt” with taxpayer money and warned it could generate financial retaliation by the state.