Letter Opposing Censorship of Ten Little Indians UPDATE: Play reinstated! Read the Superintendent's Statement November 29, 2007 Dear Members of the Lakota Board of Education: We write to oppose the recent censorship of Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie at Lakota East High School. We understand the play was challenged by Gary Hines of the NAACP because of the [...]
Ten Little Indians Reinstated A high school production of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians was originally censored by school administrators because of objections to racially sensitive language in its original 1939 U.K. edition title. The Board of Ed has since reversed that decision, reinstating the play under its revised title And Then There Were None and opening a community dialogue [...]
We write to oppose efforts to remove the books, The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult and Cradle and All by James Patterson, from the ninth grade optional reading list. We understand that some parents object to sexual content in the books and have requested that they be removed from the list.
Superintendent Randy Fuller Members of the Shelby County Board of Education 410 East College Street P. O. Box 1910 Columbiana, AL 35051-1910 November 9, 2007 Dear Superintendent Fuller and Members of the Board of Education, We are concerned about the recent decision barring Oak Mountain High School senior Brian Simpson from wearing t-shirts advocating the use of hemp. Without questioning [...]
by Sean Brekke-Meisner and Nam Pham 3rd place winner in this year's NCAC youth film competition, "How Does Censorship Affect Me?"
by Jaime Lee 2nd place winner in the 2007 NCAC youth film competition, "How Does Censorship Affect Me?" For more information, visit ncac.org
Mt. Diablo School District should stand by First Amendment principles in its review of Lois Lowry’s award-winning book The Giver. We urge them to keep the book on the sixth-grade optional reading list and library shelves, available to all.
I am a proud senior at Oak Mountain High School. On August 16, 2007, I was forced to remove my shirt that read “Widespread Hemp / Don’t Panic, It’s Hemp”...
NCAC's annual Celebration of Free Speech and Its Defenders honoring Marc Brown, Preeta Bansal, Alison Levine, Dvir Oren, Bonnie Dickinson, and Marvin Rich.
The Olneyville Housing Corporation (Providence, Rhode Island) had accepted the idea of having verbal accounts of the history of Olneyville, laser-cut into steel, decorate the metal trash cans commissioned as part of a neighborhood improvement project.
