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Tech entrepreneur Paul English, who co-founded Kayak, and Joyce Linehan, former Chief of Policy for the City of Boston and member of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, have founded BannedBooksUSA.org, an online platform that allows Florida residents to order banned and restricted books for just the price of shipping.

This year is on pace to set the record for the highest number of attempted book bans since the American Library Association began compiling data on library censorship more than

Libraries have always been on the front lines of the conflict between censorship and free speech.

This year is on pace to set the record for the highest number of attempted book bans since the American Library Association began compiling data on library censorship more than 20 years ago. Last year, there were demands to censor more than 2,500 library books. In several states, legislatures have enacted censorship into law. In […]

"As librarians know, the loss of this intellectual freedom would be catastrophic to American culture and democracy."

New laws banning library books in states like Florida follow the sorry American tradition of censorship. Librarians now, as in the past, are fighting for the public's right to read.

Banned Book Week takes place the week of October 1st – 7th at Shuffle: The Heights. On Tuesday, October 3rd, Shelley Reback, host of WMNF's MidPoint

Twenty-three days. Sixteen if you only count workdays. That’s how long the state of Florida took to provide the most fundamental information about a man who’s pulling down a six-figure, taxpayer-funded salary, has at least two government-paid underlings and appears to be on the hunt for more. And the information the Sentinel has been able to wrest from official sources is meager indeed: Terry ...

 

A Florida school district county has come under fire after guidance suggested to remove all books with LGBTQ+ themes.