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Causeway Bay Bookstore, Hong Kong, prior to its forced closure. Source: Wikimedia Commons, User: Exploringlife, URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Causeway_Bay_Bookstore_new_political_books_display.jpg"

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.

May 15, 2018May 8, 2018 Robert Sarwark Banned and Challenged Books, Civil Liberties, Intellectual Freedom Issues, International issues

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.

August 31, 2016October 5, 2017 Ellie Diaz Censorship, Freedom to Read Foundation, General Interest

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 […]

July 9, 2014July 9, 2014 Deborah Caldwell-Stone Censorship, Challenge Reporting

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 […]

September 24, 2013September 25, 2013 Jonathan Kelley Banned Books Week, Censorship
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