News & Commentary about Banned Books
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![Jason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, 2020-2022. Stands in front of a bookshelf.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/05/jason-reynolds-library-s-400x266.jpg)
May 23, 2024
Jason Reynolds Is Creating a Literary Archive for the Next Generation
![With the U.S Capitol in the back ground thousands of demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women's March in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/12/abortion-2023-protest-blog-400x266.jpg)
Dec 14, 2023
2023 in Review: The Latest on the Stories That Made Our Year
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Feb 16, 2023
Author George Johnson on Writing Black, Queer — and Banned — Stories
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Feb 16, 2023
Their Memoir Is One of the Most Banned Books in America
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Jun 29, 2022
It’s 2022 and Two Books Are on Trial for ‘Obscenity’
![Jared McGarvey standing in the sun](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/06/RTL-PRIDE-McGarvey-Full-Bleed-v2-400x266.jpg)
Jun 27, 2022
How LGBTQ Voices are Being Erased in Classrooms
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Feb 3, 2022
The Movement to Erase Black History and Culture
![Anthony, a teacher profiled in this blog, stands in the middle of his school's hallway](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/11/Classroom-Censorship-Header-400x266.jpg)
Nov 19, 2021
School is For Learning — Including Learning About Race and Gender