Vol. 247 · No. 1,488 · The People's Daily Forgetting · 50¢ if it's still legal to charge

Saturday, May 16, 2026

The Ban History Gazette

"All the news that's been removed from the curriculum."

Books removed, this year

6,870

States actively trying

Districts affected

Librarians still showing up

all of them

Source · PEN America Index of School Book Bans, 2024–25 · Snapshot 2026-05-16

↘ Top story — EDUCATION

Florida Curriculum Committee Replaces Tulsa Race Massacre With Worksheet About Tulsa Being "A Fine Town"

TALLAHASSEE, FL Sunshine State Bureau

The Florida Department of Education's standards review committee voted Wednesday to remove the 1921 Tulsa race massacre from its approved 11th-grade U.S. history materials, replacing the unit with a single-page worksheet titled "Tulsa: A Fine Town, Geographically Speaking." The new worksheet contains seven fill-in-the-blank questions about Oklahoma's annual…

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PHOTO · SPORTS YOU CAN'T MENTION

SPORTS YOU CAN'T MENTION

Alabama High School Renames Jackie Robinson Field "Field"

Huntsville's Lee-Calhoun High School athletic department announced Friday that Jackie Robinson Memorial Field, dedicated in 1997, will henceforth be known simply as "Field." Athletic director Curt…

PHOTO · OBITUARIES

OBITUARIES

American History, Age 250, Of Various Causes

American History, of no fixed address, passed quietly on Tuesday afternoon following a brief school board meeting in suburban Ohio. It was 250. Survivors include an aging stack of textbooks in a…

PHOTO · OBITUARIES

OBITUARIES

Beloved School Librarian, 34, Survived By Empty Reading Corner

Hannah Reinholt, 34, of Birmingham, passed peacefully into the private sector on Friday after a brief and pointed exchange with a school board member regarding the picture book "Last Stop on Market…

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↘ Briefs · Today's small print

SPORTS YOU CAN'T MENTION

Texas high school cheerleading squad disbanded after coach noticed routine contained "a pyramid, which is a structure with a historical context, allegedly."
POLITICS

Florida school board member says he was "just asking questions" during two-hour monologue endorsing questions.
EDUCATION

Arkansas district removes all books published before 2020, citing "older books are where the older stuff is."
CULTURE

Tennessee parent files complaint against the color brown, says she "knows what it is."
BUSINESS

Indiana Barnes & Noble installs second cash register after sales of "1984" triple in a county where the book was banned by name.
POLITICS

Oklahoma State Sen. Brad Eckhardt-Maus introduces bill banning the year 1865, says he "doesn't see what we get out of it."
SPORTS YOU CAN'T MENTION

Georgia high school basketball game forfeited after referee accidentally said "Title IX" while explaining a foul.
EDUCATION

Mississippi 4th-graders to study Reconstruction via a single haiku that does not mention Reconstruction.
CULTURE

Pennsylvania pastor declares the alphabet "increasingly woke after the letter J."
OBITUARIES

The card catalog, of natural causes, age 147.
POLITICS

South Carolina lawmaker proposes replacing all history teachers with one large QR code linking to his cousin's blog.
AMERICAN VOICES

Iowa man asked about Juneteenth says he "doesn't celebrate June," which he describes as a "made-up month for tax reasons."