A fight is brewing at a Northern Michigan public library over an effort to restrict a young adult graphic novel. The Bellaire Public Library is holding a public hearing Friday, Nov. 15, to consider a ...

JAMESTOWN — A North Dakota law that required public libraries to review their collections for “explicit sexual material” has cost a Jamestown library $54,500 in staff hours. Jamestown librarians ...

A sex education book that a resident formally sought removal from the public libraries will remain on the shelves – the same as three others that had been requested within the last four months for ...

Books are displayed at the Banned Book Library at American Stage in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2023. (Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times via AP) RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — The North Carolina House passed a ...

GRAND FORKS — Moving three children’s books discussing sex education at Grand Forks Public Library was a form of “soft censorship,” a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union’s North Dakota ...

School library books could not depict sexual activity under a North Carolina bill approved by a state House of Representatives committee Tuesday. House Bill 636 would create committees and processes ...

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