Wear Teach Banned Books buttons — and share them with your friends — to prompt conversations about the need to actively oppose book bans, teach truthfully, and defend LGBTQ+ rights. Your donation supports the Zinn Education Project’s efforts to provide free people’s history lessons to teach outside the textbook. The buttons are 1.5″ round with […]
Statistics Show Increasing Number of Diverse Books for Children and Teens
The Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) updated their annual Diversity Statistics to include data on the 3,450 books for children and teens received by the CCBC that were published in 2022. This year’s statistics show the continuation of some positive trends. After a long period of relative stagnancy, the number of children’s books the CCBC […]
Banned Books Display at SXSW
The Zinn Education Project and the African American Policy Forum collaborated on an installation on banned books at the SXSW international festival in Austin from March 10–13, 2023. It was an effective way to raise awareness about the threats to education and issue a call to action with thousands of visitors to this popular, annual […]
Create a Banned Books Pop-Up Display
The Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) collaborated on an installation and panel on banned books at SXSW in Austin. It was so popular that the Zinn Education Project is now offering a guide for anyone to create a Teach Banned Books pop-up display of their own that can be […]
Books We Don’t Recommend
The books on our booklists have each been carefully selected from a big stack of books we review each week. But we’d like to also share some of the books that we do not recommend and how critiques have led to recalls or revisions. At our Social Justice Books website, we feature more than 90 […]
Banned Books Week 2022
Over the last two years libraries and schools have faced an unprecedented number of bids to have books banned. As Jonna Perrillo writes in the Washington Post, these book bans may be even more dangerous than those of the past. The most frequently challenged books are ones that students are reading on their own accord, even if they are accessing them through […]
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