South Carolina Becomes the Nation's Top Book Banner
The State Board of Education bans an additional ten books from all public schools.
This piece has been updated to include further excerpts from public comment and additional information.
Today, the South Carolina State Board of Education voted to make the state the most prolific statewide book-banner in America, with at least twenty-one titles removed from all SC public schools and public school libraries.
Newly-removed books include:
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Adichie
Hopeless, by Colleen Hoover
Collateral, Identical, and Tricks, all three by Ellen Hopkins
Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo
Empire of Storms and Kingdom of Ash, by Sarah J. Maas
Living Dead Girl, by Elizabeth Scott
Lucky, by Alice Sebold
It wasn’t clear that the vote would go this way. During last month’s Full Board meeting, members engaged in a prolonged discussion about the regulation, with special focus on the way a single person in Beaufort who had challenged 97 books was effectively forcing t…
