Libraries

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Through the first eight months of 2023, the ALA tracked 695 challenges to library materials and services, compared to 681 during the same time period last year, and a 20% jump in the number of “unique titles” involved to 1,915.

Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer topped the list, followed by George Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue and the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.

At Chapin high school in South Carolina, some students alleged a teacher made them feel “ashamed to be Caucasian” for assigning Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, an open letter to his son about police violence against Black people that won the National Book Award in 2015.

In Fort Royal, Virginia, the county board of supervisors is planning to drastically cut funding for the Samuels public library in response to conservative complaints about books with gay, lesbian and transgender characters.

The governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, signed into law a bill which calls for books depicting sex acts to be removed from school libraries.

Missouri officials announced the state would be leaving the ALA at a time when recent laws limited access for young people to books considered inappropriate for their age.

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