Florida governor Rick Scott yesterday approved legislation that will facilitate challenges to classroom materials, allowing any county resident to lodge a challenge against textbooks or supplemental materials that they claim fail to present “a noninflammatory, objective, and balanced viewpoint on…
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New TSA Rules May Require Books to be Scanned Separately
Air travel in the U.S. may be about to get a bit worse for the literate, as the Transportation Security Administration is reportedly testing a new requirement for passengers to remove books and other paper items from their carry-on luggage…
Daughter of Detained Bookseller Asks Foreign Governments to Pressure China
The daughter of Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai, who has been held in an undisclosed location on the Chinese mainland since October 2015 on suspicion of trafficking in banned books, pleaded once again this week for the governments of Sweden…
CBLDF Joins Effort to Unblock Approval of Part-Time Indian in California School District
CBLDF yesterday signed on to a letter from NCAC’s Kids’ Right to Read Project, urging the Conejo Valley Unified School District in Thousand Oaks, California, to expedite the approval process for Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time…
CBLDF Celebrates Comics at ID10T Fest This Weekend!
This weekend, CBLDF will celebrate comics, music, comedy, and all things nerdy in the great outdoors during ID10T Fest! Along with a cool assortment of signed goodies, we’ll unveil new CBLDF stickers at booth F7! Do you need to decorate your free…
Comics & Intellectual Freedom Events at ALA Annual
Librarians, break out those tote bags! Starting today, thousands of library and publishing professionals are converging on Chicago for the American Library Association’s Annual Conference. For anyone attending the conference who has a particular interest in comics and/or intellectual freedom,…
Celebrate Young Adult GNs and Support CBLDF with Signed Lumberjanes, Drama, & Many More!
This week CBLDF has some great young adult graphic novels to get your summer reading started right! Donate today to grab a copy of Lumberjanes, signed by Noelle Stevenson; Drama, signed by Raina Telgemeier; Kevin Keller, signed by Dan Parent, and many…
Librarian Offers Tips for Handling Ugly Book Challenges
Two years ago this month, Hood County, Texas library director Courtney Kincaid embarked on what would ultimately be a successful defense of two LGBTQIA-themed children’s books that were challenged by more than 50 local residents: My Princess Boy by Cheryl…
Kentucky School District Pulls Thirteen Reasons Why from Middle School Curriculum
The school district in Anderson County, Kentucky has pulled Jay Asher’s novel Thirteen Reasons Why from middle school classrooms, despite the fact that it had been approved for instructional use last school year. According to the local newspaper, Superintendent Sheila…
“The Band Who Must Not Be Named” Wins Supreme Court Case
Today, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down portions of the Lanham Act, and supported an Asian-American band’s right to an “offensive” trademark. When the activist Asian-American rock band decided on a name that both affirms their racial identity and reclaims a racist…