Nearly 300 Books Removed From Schools Under Missouri's 'Sexually Explicit Materials' Law

Districts in Missouri have removed—either temporarily or permanently—almost 300 books from school libraries because of a state law that bans sexual...

November 25, 2022
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Districts in Missouri have removed—either temporarily or permanently—almost 300 books from school libraries because of a state law that bans sexually explicit content.The banned books include graphic novels such as Batman and X-Men, a copy of Reader's Digest, works about artists including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, graphic novel adaptations of classics by William Shakespeare and Mark Twain, the Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel Maus and other books about the Holocaust, and The Children's Bible.

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