Tag: book bans

New year, new challenges, new hope

CBLDF Interim Director Jeff Trexler and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, holding a copy of Gender Queer at the Congressional Roundtable on Book Bans, in the Library of Congress

After another epic year of challenges to – and successful defenses of – graphic novels nationwide, 2023 drew to a close with Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Interim Director Jeff Trexler sharing our experiences at the Congressional Roundtable on Book…

House Committee on Oversight to Hold Hearing on Book Bans

Book challenges and bans have been sweeping the nation at an alarming rate over the past two years. With the release of the American Library Association’s State of America’s Libraries Report yesterday, we now have an equally alarming set of data about…

Florida Tea Party Group Demands District Ban 14 Books

It’s Your Tea Party Florida has demanded that Marion County School District remove 14 books from their middle and high school libraries the group believe are “obscene, even pornographic.” Superintendent of Schools Heidi Maier removed the books from the middle…

Education On the Ballot: 2018 Midterms

Unless you’ve just woken up from a fairly long coma, you know that the midterm elections are Tuesday, November 6th. The midterm elections always experience a lower voter turnout than years when the presidency is up for grabs, but crucial…

A Closer Look at Precedent in Recent City of Thieves Book Ban

By Brian Saucier Regular readers of the CBLDF news blog will recall that the Lee County School District in Fort Myers, Florida recently ordered its 10th grade students to stop reading City of Thieves by David Benioff after a parent…