My library card is printed with my account number on the back and the words “I Read Banned Books” on the front. I swapped out my old card for this one in 2022, when the…

At some point in our lives we all have the urge to rewrite history. “The dog ate it,” revision starts early. And if not tempered by a healthy conscience can get dangerously out of hand.…

“Let Freedom Read” is this year’s theme for Banned Books Week, which takes place Oct. 1-7. Banned Books Week is a time for the Iola Public Library and libraries across the country to champion everyone’s…

Conservative culture warriors have declared a new front in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Over two days, officials in the Lee’s Summit School District received more than 200 complaints targeting close to 60 books in school libraries,…

In the last year, campaigns to ban books in school and public libraries have more than doubled, according to the American Library Association. Typically, the Association records 300-350 complaints, with most targeting a specific title.…

WASHINGTON — More than 1,600 book titles across 32 states were banned from public schools during the 2021-2022 school year, with the bulk of the ban requests coming from a handful of right-wing groups pushing…

State Senator Rick Kloos waded into the cultural warfare fray on Facebook this week by calling for the Shawnee Heights High School Superintendent to remove the book, “Gender Queer,” from the school library. A graphic…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Department of Corrections unfairly censors publications even with the adoption of a new policy and the elimination of a banned book list, a prisoner rights groups said. The Human…

The Kansas Department of Corrections has banned more than 7,000 books and publications from Kansas prisons. The list of banned publications has generated concern from the nonprofit Human Rights Defense Center, which acquired the list…