The truth and lies behind one of the most banned books in America
It seems like every few weeks, we hear mutterings of a new book ban in the United States. Whether it's Iowa's school districts trying to remove more than 3,000 books from its schools, or the governor of Utah signing a bill making it easier to ban books like Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, it can feel like a never ending game of whack-a-mole between the censors and the censored. But what, and who, is driving these bans? What are people going after exactly?