In the course of trying to verify if Columbia County High Schools have actually pulled unapproved novels from the shelves of its media centers, a Columbia County resident entered the Greenbrier High School library and shared with Southern Sprawl Media the following pic...

The Columbia County Board of Education has published the lists of books its schools can use for supplementary readings. I've compiled them into one list. In my Open Records Request, I asked for records related to:

• Purchases of books from the approved lists of 2010,...

Correspondence revealed in an Open Records Request shows that the Columbia County Board of Education, not the Novel Committee of literature teachers it assembled to make book recommendations, is responsible for preventing children from receiving copies of Dear Martin, ...

I'm continuing to mull over the best way to share the story of the Columbia County Board of Education's interference in its literature classes and media centers, but this e-mail from a teacher to an administrator obtained via Open Records Request is too valuable not to...

Another tease from the results of our Open Records Request I submitted in response to Columbia County Board of Education's interference in book selection for literature classes and media centers. I redacted the names of the people mentioned in this correspondence. Also...

Years ago, I read Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, but I don't remember anything "Middle Eastern" about it except some magic and fantasy.

The Columbia County Board of Education rejected some recommendations of a committee of teachers for supplemental books in literature cl...

In 1975, well after the Supreme Court of the United States decided in 1962 that government can't organize prayer in public schools, my family enrolled me in South Columbia Elementary School in Martinez, Georgia. I remember playing "Kill the man" during recess. I rememb...

(VAUCLUSE, SC — July 17, 2018) Men have begun work demolishing two historic but delapidated mill village buildings in the heart of Vaucluse, SC, that along with the town’s small post office next door form a trio of iconic white clapboard buildings in the center of town...