PEN America described the 2022-2023 school year as 'marked to date by an escalation of book bans and censorship in classrooms and school libraries across the United States.'
In June of this year, out of the 10 most challenged books across the county, three were by Black authors, 28 percent had characters of color or storylines that dealt with race, and six percent included both characters of color and queer characters.
Writer Ashley Hope Pérez deals 'with ongoing harassment-hate mail, ugly phone calls, defamatory messages sent to my employer,' she said.
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