Reliable Sources Tuesday, April 16, 2024 (CNN Newsletter)
'Banned in the USA'
By Oliver Darcy/CNN
America's right-wing forces would have you believe that they are the courageous entities standing up for free speech.
But, as they try to claim that mantle, many of those same forces in media and politics are behind a disturbing wave of book bans sweeping the nation.
PEN America, a non-profit organization committed to protecting free expression, published an alarming report Tuesday indicating that the "book ban crisis" is only getting worse. The bans are "speeding up," the organization warned in its report, a troublesome trend that is impacting public school systems from coast-to-coast.
"There were over 4,000 instances of book bans in the first half of this school year—more than all of last school year as a whole. This is a marked increase in comparison to the last spring semester, in which PEN America recorded 1,841 book bans," the group said in the report, aptly titled "Banned in the USA."
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