Tennessee has the third highest number of book bans in school libraries across the nation, according to a yearly report by First Amendment literary advocacy group PEN America. The report documents ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — For the first time in state history, Tennessee has official state books. The Tennessee General Assembly officially passed HB1828, by Rep. Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood), which ...

At least 13 Tennessee counties saw books removed from public school library shelves over the past year, marking the highest number of book removals the state has seen since the passage of the Age ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — According to the Tennessee Equality Project, of the top nine books facing the most scrutiny in public and school libraries, seven contain LGBTQ themes or were written by ...

The Republican-led Tennessee legislature on Wednesday passed a bill that would require public school librarians to submit to the state a list of book titles for approval, as a GOP lawmaker suggested ...

An October directive by the Tennessee Secretary of State requiring a full audit of 181 public libraries' juvenile books within 60 days to fit federal standards on gender focuses on one book. Some 181 ...

On a March afternoon in 2021, Jonathon Graham's daughter came home and told him about the book the school librarian read to her second-grade class at Whitwell Elementary. The librarian had read "Bad ...