When Books Were Actually Banned - Washington Examiner

When books were actually banned - Washington Examiner

Every fall, the American Library Association publishes a list of banned books during its Banned Books Week campaign. No book on this list is actually banned in the United States. Every single one can be bought “wherever books are sold,” as the slogan goes.  So, why does the ALA publish it? The short answer, I suspect, is to raise money. Banned Books Week is part of the organization’s fall fundraising push. Every year, newspapers run earnest stor…

When books were actually banned

Every fall, the American Library Association publishes a list of banned books during its Banned Books Week campaign. No book on this list is actually banned in the United States. Every single one can be bought “wherever books are sold,” as the slogan goes.  So, why does the ALA publish it? The short answer, I... The post When books were actually banned appeared first on Daily Truth Report • DailyTruthReport.com.

A Brooklyn Church Opens a Banned Book Library

Brooklynite Samirah Horton, 16, helped to launch the Nazarene Library, a reading room stacked with banned titles at the Nazarene Congregational United Church of Christ in Bedford-Stuyvesant.