The majority of books banned last school year highlighted stories featuring people of color and LGBTQ+ characters and subjects. A recent analysis of thousands of banned titles by PEN America found ...

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.

Authors of color were 4.5 times more likely to be banned than white authors, particularly women of color who were more likely to write children’s books that feature diverse characters.

In 2023, the American Library Association documented hundreds of attempts to remove more than 4,000 books from schools and libraries across nearly all states in the U.S. . In one of the first ...