Banned Books Week is here, and libraries across the country have banned and challenged books on display. This year, the King Library at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (151 South Campus Avenue), is focusing on comic books in particular! In…
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Watch Brad Meltzer Talk Banned Books During CBLDF’s Hangout on Air on Google+!
Celebrate Banned Books Week by watching CBLDF’s Hangout on Air with New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer on Google+! We’re going to be talking Banned Books Heroes — the people who wrote the challenging books that inspire us, the…
Banned Books Week: CBLDF Defends Banned Books and Authors
This week may be Banned Books Week, but last week was all about banning books, from the ban of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man in North Carolina, to a challenge against Eleanor & Park that led to the cancellation of a…
Banned Books Week: Challenged and Banned Comics
Because of their visual nature, comic books are an easy target for a would-be censor. What might be acceptable in a prose paragraph is not necessarily accepted in a static image. Let’s take a look at some of the titles…
Join Brad Meltzer’s Banned Books Week Heroes Hangout This Tuesday!
Celebrate Banned Books Week with New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer on Tuesday for CBLDF’s Hangout on Air on Google+! We’re going to be talking Banned Books Heroes – the people who wrote the challenging books that inspire us,…
CBLDF Launches Banned Books Week at the Brooklyn Books Festival!
Celebrate the start of Banned Books Week by supporting Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at the Brooklyn Books Festival, this Sunday, September 22, at Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza! CBLDF will be on hand with signed premiums and a special…
Charles Brownstein on CBLDF Presents Manga
Brigid Alverson with MTV Geek recently sat down with CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein to discuss CBLDF Presents Manga: Introduction, Challenges, and Best Practices, a definitive handbook about manga for teachers, parents, librarians, and anyone who has an interest in…
CBLDF Talks Banned Comics at Berkeley Public Library
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, join CBLDF at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Berkeley Public Library South Branch (1901 Russell, Berkeley, CA) for “Banned Comics in America,” a presentation by CBLDF Web Editor Betsy Gomez. A…
Banned Books Week Heroes Unveiled During Virtual Read-out
Readers from across the United States and around the world will demonstrate their support for free speech by participating in a Virtual Read-Out of banned and challenged books during Banned Books Week, Sept. 22 – 28, a time when the…
North Carolina School System Bans Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Give the rate at which schools are banning books this week, you wouldn’t think Banned Books Week is just around the corner. However, it’s happened again, this time in Randolph County, North Carolina. On Monday night, the Randolph County Board…