{"id":1095,"date":"2026-05-15T21:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:40:05","slug":"tennessee-school-district-bans-alex-haleys-roots-under-2022-state-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley\u2019s Roots under 2022 state law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves<\/p>\n<p>A Tennessee school district has banned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/aug\/15\/alex-haleys-roots-encouraged-children-immigrants-pride-heritage\">Roots<\/a>, the author Alex Haley\u2019s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>Knox county schools (KCS) took that step under a state law that has disappeared hundreds of titles from school libraries and alarmed advocates of free expression.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/tennessee-book-ban-alex-haley-roots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves A Tennessee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}