Banned Books Week starts with mixed messages as reports show challenges both up and down
NEW YORK (AP) — Two reports released Monday provide a mixed but compelling outlook on the wave of book removals and ...
12 NEWS4 天
Owner of Houston, Beaumont massage parlors agrees to shut down, must pay $700K in penalties ...
BEAUMONT, Texas — The owner of a pair of Beaumont massage parlors and several others in Houston, suspected of being involved in human trafficking, has agreed to shut down his 10 massage parlors ...
The New York Times1 天
Book Review
A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men had never met, 20th-century pop culture might have taken an entirely different course. By Lev Grossman Novels by Karl Ove Knausgaard ...
Austin American-Statesman4 天
It's Banned Books Week 2024! See most challenged books, how Texas censors compares to US
The ALA revealed in an earlier news release this year that 17 U.S. states challenged more than 100 book titles in 2023. Florida and Texas, by far, challenged the most books in 2023 with a combined ...
Her Campus3 天
Texas Book Festival Coming To Austin This Fall
As enlightening and informative as it was, something even more current and close to home caught my attention: in just a few months, Austin would be hosting its annual Texas Book Festival. I hadn’t ...
Top 25 Texas high school football rankings (9/25/2024)
Week 4 of the 2024 Texas high school football season is in the books and Week 5 quickly approaches in the Lone Star State. No ...
American Library Association8 小时
Book Ban Data
In preparation for Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2024), the American Library Association released preliminary data documenting attempts to censor books and materials in public, school, and ...
Associated Press3 天
A Texas county has told an appeals court it has a right to cull books on sex, gender and racism
(Aaron E. Martinez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Texas county that wants to keep 17 books off its ...
The Washington Post3 天
A Texas county has told an appeals court it has a right to cull books on sex, gender and racism
NEW ORLEANS — A Texas county that wants to keep 17 books off its shelves — some dealing humorously with flatulence and others with issues including sex, gender identity and racism — argued ...
The Beaumont Enterprise17 小时
Brown bananas, crowded ports, empty shelves: What to expect if there’s a big dockworkers ...
That includes the workers who make sure that your tinned fish and handy tools smoothly journey from their point of origin to where they’ll wind up, whether it’s a supermarket, hardware store or your ...
ABC74 天
Police officer completes food order after arresting delivery driver, video shows
A police officer in Texas went above and beyond the call of duty when he completed a food order after arresting a delivery driver. The Beaumont Police Department's Officer Taylor Bridges arrested ...