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Book bans and culture wars came for libraries. They’re still standing strong.
Pressure groups and policymakers drove 92% of challenges, and the American Library Association said 4,235 unique titles were challenged in 2025.
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Book bans and culture wars came for libraries. They’re still standing strong.
Sarah DeMaria still remembers how close she came to resigning from her role as a school librarian. It was the summer of 2023, and after a year of vicious personal attacks, politically motivated book challenges and police reports to flag so-called pornographic content in the library, DeMaria had enough. She packed up her office with no plan to return to the Hempfield School District in South Central Pennsylvania. But then she thought about her st…
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