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Banned Books Week 2018 Declares “Banning Books Silences Stories”
Banned Books Week just announced their theme for this year’s highly anticipated week of censorship awareness. The annual tradition is held is in September and features everything from library displays to special author events held all around the country, designed to…
Censorship By the Numbers: Beyond Books
This week American Library Association‘s Office for Intellectual Freedom released its 2017 Most Challenged Books list, comprised of challenges reported to them as well as those discovered by local and national news coverage. However, of the 354 challenges in 2017,…
ALA’s Banned Book Video | A Call To Activism
American Library Association released a video detailing their annual top ten list of most frequently challenged books. The video starts off with instances of censorship like an illustration of “To Kill a Mockingbird” scrawled on a chalkboard, paired with the…
Drama Named Among Top 10 Most Banned Books of 2017
For the third time, Raina Telgemeier’s YA classic Drama has been named to the American Library Association’s Most Banned Books list. This week, ALA released their top ten list of most frequently challenged books in 2017. Once again, the list is disproportionately…
CBLDF Hosts Mike Mignola, Roz Chast, Max de Radiguès Signings at MoCCA!
MoCCA Arts Festival is Manhattan’s largest indie comics, cartoon, and animation festival in the heart of midtown. Each year over 7,000 people attend to see what the best and brightest of established creators and newcomers are working on. There are lectures, film…