Patty Hector lost job after being targeted by campaign urging restriction of books with race and LGBTQ+ themes

A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.

Democrat Rhode Island lawmakers on Wednesday promoted a suite of bills motivated by the Freedom to Read movement — an assertion of libraries’ right to hold controversial books, amid an ongoing culture clash over the written word.

For Black librarians like me, libraries also symbolize the literacy that was denied.