Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public library
LLANO, Tex. — In early November, an email dropped into the inbox of Judge Ron Cunningham, the silver-haired head chair of the governing body of Llano County in Texas’s picturesque…
Texas librarians face harassment as they navigate book bans
Librarian Suzette Baker said she faced a hard choice last year when her boss asked her to hide a book on critical race theory behind the counter. “OK, I’ll look…
Llano County librarian loses job after not removing books
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On March 9, Suzette Baker was fired as head librarian at the Kingsland Branch Library in Llano County. “This is the final warning and termination,” Baker said,…
Book bans are a symptom of our communal poverty
Each year more books, normally available, are challenged by one group or another. Books are removed, reviewed; some are replaced, others discarded. What’s going on? What are we to make…
With Rising Book Bans, Librarians Have Come Under Attack
Martha Hickson, a high school librarian in Annandale, N.J., heard last fall that some parents were going to call for her library to ban certain books. So at 7 p.m.,…
How Book Bans Turned a Texas Town Upside Down
The group began convening around lunchtime last summer, inside of the rose-beige conference room at the Llano Library. They sat on red plastic chairs atop drab carpet, surrounded by donated…
The firing of a Texas librarian is only the latest attack on libraries
The firing of a Texas librarian is indicative of a larger problem facing librarians who defend books centered on the experiences of LGBTQ people and people of color in public libraries and…
Probe opened into Denver police shooting that injured 6
DENVER (AP) — Denver’s district attorney says she is opening a grand jury investigation into the actions of three police officers who wounded six bystanders while shooting at an armed suspect…
LoDo police shooting victims react to body cam footage
Willis Small IV was disappointed as he identified himself in body-camera footage from a police shooting in Denver’s Lower Downtown last month that injured six people and a man suspected…