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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Adrian Horton

Scholastic reverses decision to separate books on race, gender and sexuality

A middle-aged Black woman with long black hair, black-framed glasses, and a bright blue graduation robe speaks into a microphone at a lectern.
A biography of Ketanji Brown Jackson would have been separated by Scholastic. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

After facing backlash, Scholastic has reversed course on its controversial decision to separate certain book titles in school fairs by race, gender or sexuality, allowing districts to opt in or out of the catalog.

The separate catalog, called Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice, was a response to dozens of state laws restricting how the topics are discussed in schools and which could threaten school districts, teachers or librarians.

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