Lately, most of the books being attacked by censors are meant for young adult audiences. Many adults argue that the books meant for teens facilitate unsavory behaviors — teenage drinking, underage sex, and more. But teens have proven to be…
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Banned Books Week: CBLDF Defends Dozens of Books in 2012-13
This week alone, CBLDF signed three letters defending banned books and the authors of challenged books. Banned Books Week is a celebration of the freedom to read, but a look back at all of the books we helped protect since…
Banned Books Week: Charles Brownstein Talks CBLDF with Project Censored
CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein joined the hosts of KPFA’s Project Censored, a weekly radio show out of Berkeley, California, that focuses on censorship issues around the nation. Last Friday’s show was dedicated to Banned Books Week. The full episode…
King Library Banned Books Week Display Focuses on Comics
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…
Kinokuniya Books NYC Celebrates Banned Books Week With CBLDF Member Drive This Saturday!
This Saturday, celebrate Banned Books Week at Kinokuniya Bookstore (across from Bryant Park) where they’re hosting a membership drive for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! Every year manga is banned and challenged all over the world. CBLDF is 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…
Banned Books Week: Resources for Educators and Librarians
Banned Books Week starts this weekend, and one way to help prevent challenges and bans is to make sure you’re informed! CBLDF has a number of resources that inform librarians and educators about comic books and graphic novels, and ways…