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Red States Are Banning Books Again. You Just Can't See It.
Published 4 months ago
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Book banning didn’t stop. It went stealth. Across the country, libraries are quietly moving kids’ and teen books to the adult section, where a minor can’t check them out without a parent. No ban on the record, nothing to sue over, nothing on the banned-books lists everyone’s watching.
404 Media’s Claire Woodcock pulled the records from dozens of library systems and found a coordinated, nationwide reshelving, and the books making the trip are almost always the ones with Black, gay, or trans kids in them. Here’s who’s doing it, how they’re hiding it, and why it should scare you even if you’ve never set foot in a library.
Reporting by Claire Woodcock for 404 Media.
https://www.404media.co/are-public-libraries-becoming-childrens-libraries/
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