Tag: book banning
Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the Banned Booksellers’ Plight
Even since 1997, that tradition of free speech has endured. An entire cottage industry of publishing content banned throughout Mainland China emerged to a point of (semi-)national notoriety in Hong Kong, if not actual pride.
Librarian Takes Center Stage in Book-Banning Play
“Alabama Story” follows the true story of one librarian’s fight to defend a children’s book in the 1950s.
OIF Director Barbara Jones Asks Cape Henlopen School Board to restore book to summer reading list
Today Barbara Jones, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, sent a letter to the Cape Henlopen Board of Education in Delaware protesting their decision to remove emily m. danforth’s critically […]
Responding to the “Invisible Man” Challenge and Ban in North Carolina
The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom has sent a letter to the Board of Education of Randolph County, NC, concerning its recent ban of Ralph Ellison’s classic Invisible Man from school library […]