Film screening organized by the Maplewood Film Society. The Maplewood Film Society is proud to partner with the Maplewood Library for this special event. As part of the 2026 Maplewood Ideas Festival, we will be showing an exclusive Maplewood screening of the award-winning documentary, The Librarians. The film will be followed by a discussion about the film and the wave of alarming book bannings sweeping our nation, featuring librarian Martha Hickson and a local author.
Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities. In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQia+ stories — triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of White Christian Nationalism fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work — the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale.
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