Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, has never been so busy. “A year ago, we might have been receiving one, maybe two reports a day about a book being challenged at a library. And usually those calls would be for guidance on how to handle a challenge or for…
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Most of the targeted books are about Black and L.G.B.T.Q. people, according to the American Library Association. The country’s polarized politics has fueled the rise.