During this General Assembly, some GOP lawmakers want to require school boards to decide how and if sex education is taught.

Tensions on U.S. college campuses have been rising since the Israel-Hamas war started more than 100 days ago. That's been playing out locally as Indiana University suspended a professor and canceled a Palestinian artist's exhibit.

At least 21 have embraced what two legal scholars describe as discriminatory censorship laws.

This week is National Banned Books Week, and Johnson recently opened a bookstore the Saturday before that sells books by, for and about marginalized people and other books that have been challenged by school or government systems.