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JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – In recent years, book bans have affected public libraries, school systems and writers nationwide, including in Mississippi.  According to the American Library Association, more than 2,500 unique books were targeted for censorship nationwide in 2022. So far in 2023, that number is more than 1,900. The most targeted books nationally deal with race, reference […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader

The Tucson Festival of Books is joining bookstores and libraries across the country to support authors whose work has been censored by American politicians.

As a Westerville Central High School senior, Donovan Lewis was drawn to Angie Thomas’ novel “The Hate U Give.” At age 20, his life became the book.

Readers of “The Hate U Give” are reminded that the relentless murder of young Black men and women at the hands of police is so far from fiction.

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