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Universal Images Group via Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA) -- The decision by children’s book publisher Scholastic to create a separate, optional section for its elementary school book fairs for titles written predominantly by and about people of color and LGBTQ people is meeting resistance from groups that oppose book bans. The news comes as attempts to ban books spike across the country and as dozens of states continue to implement policies that restrict how the subjects of race, gender a...

Universal Images Group via Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA) -- The decision by children’s book publisher Scholastic to create a separate, optional section for its elementary school book fairs for titles written predominantly by and about people of color and LGBTQ people is meeting resistance from groups that oppose book bans. The news comes as attempts to ban books spike across the country and as dozens of states continue to implement policies that restrict how the subjects of race, gender a...

Scholastic Book Fairs face criticism over their choice to allow schools to opt out of diversity titles focusing on race and LGBTQ representation.

Paying Tennessee State University what it's owed would go a long way to reversing what HBCU leaders call an "assault on Black education."

Librarians now can hit the ‘bigot button’ for their school book fairs. But the publisher’s ham-fisted move is sure to increase sales

Nonprofit organization We Need Diverse Books urged Scholastic to “desegregate” its book fairs.

Student-driven rally aims to motivate the youth of New Orleans

The publisher's action is drawing criticism from teachers, librarians, and advocacy groups.

The arrangement involving the publishers new Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice collection was confirmed Friday in a statement from the book distributor.

Amid a nationwide downturn in violent crime, New Orleans children have seemingly been left behind. Seventeen juveniles have been murdered in the city so far this year, according to NOPD,