After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, Kim Snyder’s new documentary made waves with the Texas Theatre audience ...

A trio of Houston-area school districts accounted for nearly half of the 1,781 books banned in Texas over the 2024-2025 school year, making the Lone Star State second only to Florida for the most book ...

Texas is a perennial top-three performer when it comes banning books in schools. Texas ranked third in last year’s report and ...

As a new Texas law further restricting what books students can check out of school libraries takes effect, local bans are gaining steam in districts across the state — in some cases going in startling ...

Texas is notable in that it boasts several Black-owned bookstores as opposed to states that may have one at the most.

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 ...

HB 900, or the READER Act (Restricting Explicit and Adult Designated Educational Resources), was passed in Texas on June 12 and is likely to take effect from September 1. It was passed by the 88th ...

Carlos Barron said it’s important for young people to see themselves in the books they read. For him, one of those books was Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, a coming-of-age ...

The journalist and author goes big in a deceptively slim collection of essays, "An Anchor in the Sea of Time." ...

Meagan O'Toole Pitts, a local author, is being celebrated for her children's book "Carmelita," which is inspired by Carmelita ...

Carlos Barron said it's important for young people to see themselves in the books they read. For him, one of those books was Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, a coming-of-age ...