In 2023, the American Library Association documented hundreds of attempts to remove more than 4,000 books from schools and libraries across nearly all states in the U.S. In one of the first ...

Most were written by or about the LGBTQIA+ community and people of color. A record-breaking 1,269 demands were made to censor library books and resources in 2022, the highest number of attempted book ...

The number of public school bans in the U.S. in the 2022-23 school year 33% rose 33% over last year, the report says 40% of those bans listed happened in Florida Does it seem like there are a lot of ...

Katherine Spoon has received funding from the National Science Foundation. This research was assisted by a Social Science Research Council (SSRC)/Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science ...