Book censorship: Why it's not going to stop with the books, no matter how you spin it

Book censorship: Why it's not going to stop with the books, no matter how you spin it

I grew up in a home where no book was off-limits. I still remember borrowing Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye from my high school library – a novel that shook me, challenged me, and ultimately taught me empathy. No one tried to stop me from reading it.  Fast forward to today, and that same book is on banned lists in some school districts​. Book banning, something many of us assumed was a relic of the past, is back in force. And it’s not just a han…

NC House Education panel advances bill removing school library books with sexual content

NC Newsline - The North Carolina House Education Committee approved a bill aimed at barring books and other media with sexual content from school libraries, opening up schools that do not comply with the requirements to lawsuits. The proposal, House Bill 636, drew concerns from Democratic representatives over the subjectivity of which books are “harmful to minors” or “pervasively vulgar,” the standard for removal set by the bill, as well as prot…