Here are the books the ALA tracked as most challenged in 2022 (there was a 4-way tie for #10): 1. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe — LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit. 2.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (RNS) — Connections between Christianity, Confederacy and civil rights — and the history of slavery — are in plain sight here in Alabama’s capital.

Ala. Youth Pastor Accused of Forcing Teen into Prostitution in Multiple States Stephen Dewayne Johnson was arrested in Florida, where police found him with a teen who claimed she had been selling ...

ATTALLA, Ala. - Savannah Hardin's life was in turmoil long before police say the 9-year-old was run to death by her grandmother and stepmother for allegedly lying about some candy she ate.

Just over a year ago, the ALA Executive Board directed the Digital Content and Libraries Working Group (DCWG) to pursue more aggressive strategies to get ebooks into the hands of library patrons at a ...

The ALA's annual top 10 lists of the year's most banned books, tracked and compiled by the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), are released every April, while Banned Books Week is held ...

That book, Why We Are Here, is a rich examination in text and photos of Wilson's boyhood home of Mobile, Ala. The photos show a distinct people, nature and, most importantly, ...

Montgomery, Ala., touts itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. But although Montgomery now embraces its history of bus boycotts and protest marches, it remains one of the most ...