Banned Books Week is happening September 25 – October 1, and CBLDF is delighted to release the latest edition of the CBLDF Banned Books Week Handbook to help you celebrate! A resource anyone can use to plan a Banned Books Week celebration…
It’s Labor Day, a celebration of America’s workers and the unofficial end of the summer and start of the school year. It also means we’re only three weeks way from the annual celebration of the right to read, Banned Books…
Retailers: Engage your community during Banned Books week with the 2016 edition of the CBLDF Banned Books Week Handbook! Stock up now — the Handbook FOC’s on Monday, August 15 (Diamond order code JUL161460)! This year’s Banned Books Week celebrates diversity, and…
Why are so many diverse books banned? The 2016 celebration of Banned Books Week will examine this important question as part of its thematic focus on diversity, the event’s national coalition announced today. Banned Books Week, the annual celebration of…
Banned Books Week is almost over, and once again it’s been a great success! Let’s take a look at CBLDF and Banned Books Week in the news: Banned Books Week: How comics are fighting a hail of critical fire: CBLDF…
In the United States, we’re celebrating Banned Books Week and our First Amendment right to freedom of speech, but artists around the world continue to be censored and banned and sometimes even imprisoned or killed. From political cartoonists to comic…
This year, CBLDF and its partners in anti-censorship advocacy have seen a dramatic increase in book challenges compared to last year. Fortunately, in most of those cases we and local free speech fighters have prevailed! Here are some free speech…
We’re halfway through Banned Books Week, and to celebrate, Humble Bundle is expanding the Humble Comics Bundle: Forbidden Comics Supporting Banned Books Week, adding even more challenged and banned work to an already amazing assortment of comics! Many notable creators…
Books aren’t just challenged and banned in libraries — increasingly, CBLDF has had to protect books on school reading lists and in classrooms! As we celebrate Banned Books Week, let’s take a look at some comics that make great classroom…
In the past two years, we’ve seen a veritable explosion of challenges and bans to books assigned as summer reading in middle school, high school, and even college. Moreover, in many cases school districts or administrators seem unsure as to…