Minnesota and other Democratic-led states lead pushback on censorship. They're banning the book ban

At a time when book bans have soared to their highest levels in decades, a countertrend is emerging ST. PAUL, Minn. -- As a queer and out youth, Shae Ross was alarmed when she heard that conservative groups were organizing in her community to ban books dealing with sexuality, gender and race. So she and her friends got organized themselves, and helped persuade their school board to make it much harder to remove books and other materials from their libraries and classrooms. Ross, an 18-year-old senior in the Minneapolis suburb...