TEXAS, USA — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. A bill that would give parents more power over which books their ...

Librarian Judith Bergeron answers the phone in her office at the Smithville Public Library in Smithville, Texas, on March 11, 2024. (Maria Crane For The Texas Tribune, Maria Crane For The Texas ...

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Pictured are bookshelves at a school library in Houston. A bill that would give parents more power over which books their children can read in public school libraries will soon go before Texas ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On a sweltering Saturday afternoon in August, a group of parents escaped the heat with their children to go to an indoor story time led by someone who looked like she might have ...

SMITHVILLE When the COVID-19 pandemic first shut down the Smithville Public Library, it was as if a vital community artery had been severed. “We did see a lot of anxiety when people felt cut off from ...

As more and more Texas school boards seek to censor books deemed too controversial or sexual in content, a conservative court in Texas ruled Friday that government entities, including public libraries ...