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Free speech advocates accuse Republicans of ‘intimidation tactics’ as employees disciplined for sharing their views

The firing happened over two years after Texas A&M stressed its support for academic freedom and amid a changing higher education landscape.

An Atlanta store is one of hundreds of independent booksellers across the country celebrating the freedom to read as schools, universities and public libraries face attempts to ban or restrict books.

Across the country, more books have been removed as religious and conservative groups target LGBTQ and race issues

If you've read a book in one sitting sometime in the last year, chances are another book was banned before you finished it.

Across the country, more books have been challenged and removed as religious and conservative groups target LGBTQ and race issues.

A new policy scraps community recommendations from last fall that some books that had been questioned should remain on shelves.

Attacks on books occupy a special place among the signposts of philistinism and anti-democratic suppression.

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