Book Bans - PEN America
PEN America found more than 10,000 book bans in the 2023-2024 school year, more than double the banned books in the previous year.| PEN America
PEN America found more than 10,000 book bans in the 2023-2024 school year, more than double the banned books in the previous year.| PEN America
Tennessee banned books that depict humans unclothed – even if the photos in question are of 3,000-year old statues. The post Art, history books out of students’ reach due to overreaching bans appeared first on PEN America.| PEN America
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. The post PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of August 18 appeared first on PEN America.| PEN America
It's up to us to advocate for the values that we believe in. There's a lot to lose, and young people are going to feel the brunt of that loss. The post ‘It’s up to us’: Student Organizer Uplifts Community to Defend Free Expression appeared first on PEN America.| PEN America
When writers like you, me, my buddies, keep writing, we’re an army—we can run this race. The post ‘I’ve Always Been Fighting’: JD Mathes on How Writers Form an Army appeared first on PEN America.| PEN America
Efforts to rewrite history and silence dissent are a betrayal of our democratic traditions. The post Trump and the Smithsonian: This is How We Lose Our Grip on the Truth appeared first on PEN America.| PEN America
National Park Service staff spent weeks scrambling to review signage and other materials for topics that may be considered “disparaging” or reflective of “corrosive ideology.” The post History, Sanitized, Coming to a National Park Near You appeared first on PEN America.| PEN America
Samina Ali and Ariel Gore discussed their memoirs, which chronicle the ways the medical system failed them. The post Surviving the Impossible: Women Navigate Death and Grief in a Complex Healthcare System appeared first on PEN America.| PEN America
I believe that collective memory matters, that a shared narrative is necessary in order for people to unite and resist when called for. The post The Keeper of Memories: A Debut Novel on Shared Stories and Resistance appeared first on PEN America.| PEN America
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. The post PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of Aug. 11 appeared first on PEN America.| PEN America
PEN America is please to announce a $1.4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to fortify its work fortifying the freedom to read, with a heightened focus on supporting public libraries and librarians.| PEN America
This year, our free, virtual reading series gathers voices from across time zones for an international celebration!| PEN America
Silencing a poet for his words not only stifles individual creativity but also weakens the broader human rights principles.| PEN America
"We have created the infrastructure for listening, and for having conversations, and for debunking without the stigma."| PEN America
No federal administration has moved as swiftly to exert broad new controls over what people can say, read, learn, research, and think.| PEN America
Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for publishing a birthday letter the president sent to Epstein years ago is purely retalation| PEN America
What books are banned in 2025? These are the 11 most banned books of the 2023-2024 school year. The banned books list for 2025 includes "Nineteen Minutes," by Jodi Picoult.| PEN America
We thank the members of our community who have spoken to us about their concerns, and want to be transparent in sharing publicly the information we have shared with them.| PEN America
In this PEN Ten interview, Ekow Eshun reflects on the process and motivations that foreground his work of creative nonfiction.| PEN America
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture.| PEN America
This report on book bans in the 2023-24 school year documents how censorial trends have continued to ripple beyond the shelves.| PEN America
Proposals to restrict the freedom to learn and teach continued to proliferate in state legislatures across the nation in 2023, according to a new PEN America report.| PEN America
PEN America sought to further understand the impacts of this censorship – the identities and genres being erased from public schools.| PEN America
A letter from authors whose works are cited in Mahmoud v. Taylor.| PEN America
How does a school determine which viewpoints might potentially infringe unconstitutionally on someone’s religious liberty?| PEN America
To limit our experience of the fullness of the world’s cultures, to cause us to live in a circumscribed culture, is itself a form of censorship.| PEN America
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture.| PEN America
PEN America is alarmed by reports that federal and local law enforcement officers used force on members of the press covering protests in LA.| PEN America
Each student was given the opportunity to deepen their understanding of academic freedom and the tools to share that knowledge with others.| PEN America
I’m sick of the systematic attacks on journalism from our very government, and of people blaming “the media” for practically every problem we face.| PEN America
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The experience of these Florida students speaks to the far-reaching impacts that DEI bans have on campus free expression.| PEN America
Anyone who uses language deliberately to share truth, expose injustice, question authority, or imagine better futures belongs in this community.| PEN America
PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide.| PEN America
America's Censored Classrooms 2024 explores how lawmakers are refining educational censorship through informal intimidation and pressure.| PEN America
The GOP’s victory in the 2024 election will have major implications for academic freedom, free speech, and university autonomy.| PEN America
The final count for the 2023-2024 school year will be released later this fall along with a public Index of School Book Bans.| PEN America
Banned in the USA utilizes snapshots to illustrate the hateful rhetoric driving book bans and the damage this movement has done to students.| PEN America
What is a book ban? What is the history of banning books? We answer frequently asked questions about book bans.| PEN America
In this 2023 banned books update, PEN America recorded more book bans during the fall 2022 semester than in each of the prior two semesters.| PEN America
Five dictionaries are on Escambia County's list of more than 1,600 books banned pending investigation in December 2023, along with eight different encyclopedias, The Guinness Book of World Records, and Ripley’s Believe it or Not.| PEN America
We need to engage in free debate about books without denying readers the opportunity to read these books and come to their own conclusions.| PEN America
In 2022, proposed educational gag orders have increased 250 percent compared to 2021. This can be summarized in a single word: escalation.| PEN America
This report details the alarming spread of legislative efforts in 2021 to constrict education related to race, gender, and American history.| PEN America
You may have seen pictures of empty bookshelves or heard about Florida book bans. What’s happening is that new laws are having a clear chilling effect.| PEN America
In the 2022–23 school year, PEN America recorded 3,362 instances of book bans in US public school classrooms and libraries.| PEN America
These bills enable blanket restrictions on books or curricula for all students—and ultimately empower an ideological assault on public education.| PEN America
PEN America's report on school book bans offers the most comprehensive look at banned books in the 2021–22 school year, with counting more than 2,500 bans.| PEN America
