Alex Haley’s masterwork Roots turns 50 this year. But a school board’s move to ban the book has stoked outcry, including from family members like Anne Haley.
Danny Gonzalez, one of three members elected in 2022 who voted to report transgender students to their parents and ban critical race theory, has left the board.
Culture wars rage as school board puts $93,000 in new library books in storage and bans titles by Judy Blume and Dr. Seuss.