Whether HB 900 eventually takes effect, efforts to ban books continue to rise in Texas and across the country. The state had the most book challenges in the country in 2022, according to a recent ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A group of booksellers and publishers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block a new Texas book ratings law they say could ban such classics "Romeo and Juliet" and "Of ...

Austin's library collection can be a front line in our resistance to the rise of book banning in Texas. But for this ...

Local book bans in Texas are gaining momentum after a new law started restricting student library book choices in the state, according to a new report by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica.

Sadly, Texas leads the way in banning books and censoring the ideas contained in their pages. According to a study by PEN America , from July 2021 through June 2022, 801 books were banned across ...

A federal appeals court has issued an injunction against part of Texas’ book-banning law that requires book vendors to rate books for “sexually explicit” and “sexually relevant” materials.

Damon was recently featured in a Libraries Transform Texas podcast discussing Banned Books Week, an annual event put on by the American Library Association celebrating the freedom to read.

Texas parents and politicians say they are protecting students with book bans. Many students, including Cameron Samuels, a senior at Seven Lakes High School in Katy ISD, aren’t buying it.

Texas attempted more book bans in 2022 than any other state, data says. The Lone Star state challenged more than 2,300 titles last year, a sharp uptick from 1,524 titles in 2021, ...

Attendees read from some of the books being targeted for banning during a Texas Freedom Network’s Teach the Truth Coalition read-in demonstration held at the Texas State Capitol July 26, 2022 ...

A rural Texas county that was ordered by a federal judge to return banned books to its public library shelves is now considering shutting down its libraries entirely.. A meeting of the ...

Whether HB 900 eventually takes effect, efforts to ban books continue to rise in Texas and across the country. The state had the most book challenges in the country in 2022, according to a recent ...