Tag: Book Bans

Banning classic books, fluoride and plant foods labeled "milk" or "meat" together with curbing teen violence, regulating drone use, instituting tax breaks for veterans and lowering the age for organ donation — these are just some of the bills local lawmakers will be working on during the 60-day legislative session that starts Tuesday.

“You will not tell us what we can read or what we can know about our plight in America over 400 years.”

The Orange County Board of Education wants to re-define “pornography” to circumvent longstanding procedures for removing controversial books from school library shelves.

One man grabbed the spotlight at a fall school board meeting. Orange County Public Schools Superintendent Barbara Jenkins caved. Now LGBTQ and certain BIPOC books can’t be found in school libraries, and bills to make that permanent are under consideration in the Florida Legislature.

After the Orlando Sentinel’s splashy Sunday spread on Moms For Liberty, SPEAKUp’s co-founder had to speak out against censorship.

American University antiracist scholar Dr. Traci Dennis on why critical race theory doesn't make students "hate their country" — no matter what Gov. DeSantis says