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Book store shoplifting. Book store shoplifting is a problem for book sellers and has sometimes led stores to keep certain volumes behind store counters. Shoplifters at book stores may be thieves who want the book, or thieves who want to make money by selling the book. Those with systematic resale in mind usually target high-priced books and ...
The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling was the most challenged work from 2000 to 2009. Its topics relating to things such as witchcraft have generated controversy. The second oldest works featured on the list were written by Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is often challenged for its language and discussion of racism.
Outcome. Banning of thousands of books from school libraries in many states. Starting in 2021, there have been a considerable number of books banned or challenged in parts of the United States. Most of the targeted books have to do with race, gender, and sexuality. Unlike most book challenges in the past, whereby parents or other stakeholders ...
Thirteen popular books have been banned from all public schools in Utah in the first wave of bans expected under a new law that prohibits books when at least three of the state’s 41 school ...
Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [ 1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in 1637 in modern-day Quincy ...
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RALPH D. RUSSO. August 1, 2024 at 8:06 PM. College sports leaders believe they have found a way through a massive antitrust settlement to finally separate “true NIL" for athletes from booster ...
Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read, [ 1] draws attention to banned and challenged books, [ 2] and highlights persecuted individuals. Held in late September or early October since 1982, the United States campaign "stresses ...