A report from the American Library Association released Monday found over 700 "challenges" to library, school and university materials in 2021, the most since at least 2000, when the organization started tracking them.
Driving the news: Book bans have risen substantially over the past year, as conservative groups have challenged public school libraries and successfully purged books from those libraries, generally about LGBTQ issues and people of color, per Axios' Russell Contreras.
