News that President Donald Trump’s presidential library may rise next to Miami’s Freedom Tower is bound to spark bitter debate — and it should. That’s the American way. After all, this is Trump, a president who has declared war on immigrants and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Murfreesboro Vice Mayor Bill Shacklett worries that freedom to choose library books might be diminished if deemed harmful to children because of a community decency standards ordinance.

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once said, “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” Though spoken in 1952, his words remain ...

OSHKOSH — Oshkosh Public Library, 106 Washington Ave., is planning a series of events to celebrate “Freedom to Read” in observance of Banned Books Week Oct. 1-7. The library said in a news release recent data from the American Library Association’s ...

Mayor Eric Adams, alongside the presidents of New York City’s three public library systems — Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library — joined forces with local librarians and teens at Brooklyn’s Central Library ...

Freedom Public Library is about to get a lot bigger. County commissioners, county administrators, Friends of the Freedom Public Library members and others gathered at the property mid-morning Tuesday to break ground on an ambitious expansion project.

Photo titled: Leaving for Camp, July 3, 1958. The Negro Motorist Green Book, later known as The Negro Travelers' Green Book, was a listing of restaurants, gas stations, hotels, department stores and other businesses that welcomed Black travelers in the Jim ...

Despite a number of high-profile legal victories for freedom to read advocates in recent months, book bans continue to surge—and this week, a host of anti-censorship and library groups are blasting a move by the board of the Autauga-Prattville Public ...