More than half of books banned last year featured LGBTQ characters or people of color, report finds

[Seymour Flops]

‘More than half of books banned during the last school year featured or were about people of color or members of the LGBTQ community, according to a report released Thursday. PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from school, classrooms or curriculums last year, affecting 4,218 titles.

The analysis released Thursday found that those bans disproportionately affect books about certain identities, including people of color, and also more often apply to certain genres, such as history. The analysis found that 36% of the more than 4,000 banned titles featured characters or people of color and 25% included LGBTQ characters or people. Of the titles featuring LGBTQ people, 28% featured a transgender and/or genderqueer character. One in 10 of the banned titles featured characters or people with a physical and/or learning or developmental disability, the analysis found.

“This targeted censorship amounts to a harmful assault on historically marginalized and underrepresented populations — a dangerous effort to erase their stories, achievements, and history from schools,” Sabrina Baêta, senior manager for PEN America’s Freedom to Read program, said in a statement. “When we strip library shelves of books about particular groups, we defeat the purpose of a library collection that is supposed to reflect the lives of all people. The damaging consequences to young people are real.”

Book challenges and bans — which are often spearheaded by parents and conservative activists — have skyrocketed in recent years, according to the American Library Association, which found that in 2024 the number of books challenged in libraries across the U.S. reached the highest level ever documented by the nonprofit. During the 2021 school year, PEN America found that more than 1,600 books were banned in schools, compared to the 4,218 removed from shelves last year.’

More than half of books banned last year featured LGBTQ characters or people of color, report finds

Of history and biography books that were banned last year, 26% featured Black people, and 25% featured LGBTQ people.

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The fascist right has been busy pursuing its agenda of racism, bigotry, and hate.

Democrats insist that the number of trans people is tiny, so therefore the number of males accessing female sports and locker rooms, for example, is so minuscule that those of us who object to it are foolish because it almost never happens anyway.

That being the case, why would there be thousands of such titles in our school libraries?

 

[Lisa558]

‘More than half of books banned during the last school year featured or were about people of color or members of the LGBTQ community, according to a report released Thursday. PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from school, classrooms or curriculums last year, affecting 4,218 titles.

The analysis released Thursday found that those bans disproportionately affect books about certain identities, including people of color, and also more often apply to certain genres, such as history. The analysis found that 36% of the more than 4,000 banned titles featured characters or people of color and 25% included LGBTQ characters or people. Of the titles featuring LGBTQ people, 28% featured a transgender and/or genderqueer character. One in 10 of the banned titles featured characters or people with a physical and/or learning or developmental disability, the analysis found.

“This targeted censorship amounts to a harmful assault on historically marginalized and underrepresented populations — a dangerous effort to erase their stories, achievements, and history from schools,” Sabrina Baêta, senior manager for PEN America’s Freedom to Read program, said in a statement. “When we strip library shelves of books about particular groups, we defeat the purpose of a library collection that is supposed to reflect the lives of all people. The damaging consequences to young people are real.”

Book challenges and bans — which are often spearheaded by parents and conservative activists — have skyrocketed in recent years, according to the American Library Association, which found that in 2024 the number of books challenged in libraries across the U.S. reached the highest level ever documented by the nonprofit. During the 2021 school year, PEN America found that more than 1,600 books were banned in schools, compared to the 4,218 removed from shelves last year.’

More than half of books banned last year featured LGBTQ characters or people of color, report finds

Of history and biography books that were banned last year, 26% featured Black people, and 25% featured LGBTQ people.

www.nbcnews.com

The fascist right has been busy pursuing its agenda of racism, bigotry, and hate.

That makes sense. We don’t need elementary school children learning about homosexuals and transgenders.

And you need to correct your title to read: banned from school libraries

 

[Independent thinker]

‘More than half of books banned during the last school year featured or were about people of color or members of the LGBTQ community, according to a report released Thursday. PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from school, classrooms or curriculums last year, affecting 4,218 titles.

The analysis released Thursday found that those bans disproportionately affect books about certain identities, including people of color, and also more often apply to certain genres, such as history. The analysis found that 36% of the more than 4,000 banned titles featured characters or people of color and 25% included LGBTQ characters or people. Of the titles featuring LGBTQ people, 28% featured a transgender and/or genderqueer character. One in 10 of the banned titles featured characters or people with a physical and/or learning or developmental disability, the analysis found.

“This targeted censorship amounts to a harmful assault on historically marginalized and underrepresented populations — a dangerous effort to erase their stories, achievements, and history from schools,” Sabrina Baêta, senior manager for PEN America’s Freedom to Read program, said in a statement. “When we strip library shelves of books about particular groups, we defeat the purpose of a library collection that is supposed to reflect the lives of all people. The damaging consequences to young people are real.”

Book challenges and bans — which are often spearheaded by parents and conservative activists — have skyrocketed in recent years, according to the American Library Association, which found that in 2024 the number of books challenged in libraries across the U.S. reached the highest level ever documented by the nonprofit. During the 2021 school year, PEN America found that more than 1,600 books were banned in schools, compared to the 4,218 removed from shelves last year.’

More than half of books banned last year featured LGBTQ characters or people of color, report finds

Of history and biography books that were banned last year, 26% featured Black people, and 25% featured LGBTQ people.

www.nbcnews.com

The fascist right has been busy pursuing its agenda of racism, bigotry, and hate.

Great news! Thanks for posting.

 

[martybegan]

It's gonna do nothing but get worse.

So these books are unavailable for purchase anywhere in the US?

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

I say two words....age appropriate

Who defines appropriate? The majority party? No thanks.

 

[Meister]

Who defines appropriate? The majority party? No thanks.

Oh brother....

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Oh brother....

Stimulating reply.

 

[Meister]

Stimulating reply.

Your post got more than it deserved.

 

[MarcATL]

‘More than half of books banned during the last school year featured or were about people of color or members of the LGBTQ community, according to a report released Thursday. PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from school, classrooms or curriculums last year, affecting 4,218 titles.

The analysis released Thursday found that those bans disproportionately affect books about certain identities, including people of color, and also more often apply to certain genres, such as history. The analysis found that 36% of the more than 4,000 banned titles featured characters or people of color and 25% included LGBTQ characters or people. Of the titles featuring LGBTQ people, 28% featured a transgender and/or genderqueer character. One in 10 of the banned titles featured characters or people with a physical and/or learning or developmental disability, the analysis found.

“This targeted censorship amounts to a harmful assault on historically marginalized and underrepresented populations — a dangerous effort to erase their stories, achievements, and history from schools,” Sabrina Baêta, senior manager for PEN America’s Freedom to Read program, said in a statement. “When we strip library shelves of books about particular groups, we defeat the purpose of a library collection that is supposed to reflect the lives of all people. The damaging consequences to young people are real.”

Book challenges and bans — which are often spearheaded by parents and conservative activists — have skyrocketed in recent years, according to the American Library Association, which found that in 2024 the number of books challenged in libraries across the U.S. reached the highest level ever documented by the nonprofit. During the 2021 school year, PEN America found that more than 1,600 books were banned in schools, compared to the 4,218 removed from shelves last year.’

More than half of books banned last year featured LGBTQ characters or people of color, report finds

Of history and biography books that were banned last year, 26% featured Black people, and 25% featured LGBTQ people.

www.nbcnews.com

The fascist right has been busy pursuing its agenda of racism, bigotry, and hate.

That sounds about white OP.

 

[blackhawk]

The books were deemed age inappropriate for school libraries you can still purchase them so they are not banned.

 

[munkle]

Banned where?

 

[Dogmaphobe]

It is always the leftists here who wish to sexualize children at a young age.

I sure miss the days when the left was liberal, and so protected children instead

 

[d0gbreath]

"Please don't throw me into the briar patch." B. Rabbit

 

[TheGreatSatan]

^^^ Democrats are groomers that tell small children things like this is a woman. Democrats are dangerous around kids and Americans should be suspicious of anyone claiming they are a democrat around their kids.

Democrats target special needs kids the most for sterilization and mutilation.

Democrats = perverted freaks

 

[EvilCat Breath]

No books have been banned. If you think that any book has been banned, you don't know the meaning of the word "ban".

 

[TheGreatSatan]

No books have been banned. If you think that any book has been banned, you don't know the meaning of the word "ban".

Democrats are mad they can't put their grooming books in schools.

Democrats = perverted freaks

 

[westwall]

‘More than half of books banned during the last school year featured or were about people of color or members of the LGBTQ community, according to a report released Thursday. PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from school, classrooms or curriculums last year, affecting 4,218 titles.

The analysis released Thursday found that those bans disproportionately affect books about certain identities, including people of color, and also more often apply to certain genres, such as history. The analysis found that 36% of the more than 4,000 banned titles featured characters or people of color and 25% included LGBTQ characters or people. Of the titles featuring LGBTQ people, 28% featured a transgender and/or genderqueer character. One in 10 of the banned titles featured characters or people with a physical and/or learning or developmental disability, the analysis found.

“This targeted censorship amounts to a harmful assault on historically marginalized and underrepresented populations — a dangerous effort to erase their stories, achievements, and history from schools,” Sabrina Baêta, senior manager for PEN America’s Freedom to Read program, said in a statement. “When we strip library shelves of books about particular groups, we defeat the purpose of a library collection that is supposed to reflect the lives of all people. The damaging consequences to young people are real.”

Book challenges and bans — which are often spearheaded by parents and conservative activists — have skyrocketed in recent years, according to the American Library Association, which found that in 2024 the number of books challenged in libraries across the U.S. reached the highest level ever documented by the nonprofit. During the 2021 school year, PEN America found that more than 1,600 books were banned in schools, compared to the 4,218 removed from shelves last year.’

More than half of books banned last year featured LGBTQ characters or people of color, report finds

Of history and biography books that were banned last year, 26% featured Black people, and 25% featured LGBTQ people.

www.nbcnews.com

The fascist right has been busy pursuing its agenda of racism, bigotry, and hate.

I can still buy them. So they aren't banned.

Numbskull.

 

[Correll]

‘More than half of books banned during the last school year featured or were about people of color or members of the LGBTQ community, according to a report released Thursday. PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from school, classrooms or curriculums last year, affecting 4,218 titles.

The analysis released Thursday found that those bans disproportionately affect books about certain identities, including people of color, and also more often apply to certain genres, such as history. The analysis found that 36% of the more than 4,000 banned titles featured characters or people of color and 25% included LGBTQ characters or people. Of the titles featuring LGBTQ people, 28% featured a transgender and/or genderqueer character. One in 10 of the banned titles featured characters or people with a physical and/or learning or developmental disability, the analysis found.

“This targeted censorship amounts to a harmful assault on historically marginalized and underrepresented populations — a dangerous effort to erase their stories, achievements, and history from schools,” Sabrina Baêta, senior manager for PEN America’s Freedom to Read program, said in a statement. “When we strip library shelves of books about particular groups, we defeat the purpose of a library collection that is supposed to reflect the lives of all people. The damaging consequences to young people are real.”

Book challenges and bans — which are often spearheaded by parents and conservative activists — have skyrocketed in recent years, according to the American Library Association, which found that in 2024 the number of books challenged in libraries across the U.S. reached the highest level ever documented by the nonprofit. During the 2021 school year, PEN America found that more than 1,600 books were banned in schools, compared to the 4,218 removed from shelves last year.’

More than half of books banned last year featured LGBTQ characters or people of color, report finds

Of history and biography books that were banned last year, 26% featured Black people, and 25% featured LGBTQ people.

www.nbcnews.com

The fascist right has been busy pursuing its agenda of racism, bigotry, and hate.

1. Probably a reflection on the choices of the hard left that puts vile filth in books that ends up getting them "banned".


2. Don't care.

3. YOu saying "racism" means nothing to me.