Keeping Steinbeck in the Classroom in Coeur d’Alene
Is John Steinbeck's classic Of Mice and Men too controversial for a classroom of ninth graders? That's what some in an Idaho town are saying.
Is John Steinbeck's classic Of Mice and Men too controversial for a classroom of ninth graders? That's what some in an Idaho town are saying.
Protesters demand that a controversial poet be removed from a committee at an academic conference. And the writers' group organizing the conference promptly complies.
A benefit event for the NCAC is abruptly called off after the theater hosting the show deemed some of the content offensive-- especially Neil LaBute's "Mohammed Gets A Boner."
A play about penguins was a hit at an anti-censorship conference. Days later, it was canceled at a nearby school.
Don’t you hate it when one person ruins it for the rest of us? Teachers of Asheville, your school district has your back. So do we.
Students at a Pennsylvania high school are told by local police that what they tweet could be a crime.
Published in January, The Guantanamo Diary is an intense account of Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s excruciating experiences as a prisoner of the U.S. war on terror. Slahi was detained in his native Mauritania in 2001; a CIA rendition plane flew him to Jordan for brutal interrogation sessions, and from there he was taken to Afghanistan and then finally to the infamous [...]
According to black students, the problems they face on campus — like poor retention and graduation rates and less financial aid — existed before the video surfaced. Perhaps there’s a problem at OU that goes beyond the reprehensible acts of some students on a party bus.
Politicians and activists gear up to battle what they see as left-wing bias in the AP's US History framework.
Can one parent effectively get a book banned from an entire classroom? That's exactly what's happening in one North Carolina town.
The right-wing provocateur has the right to say what she wants. Does she think Arabs and Muslims have the same rights?
A California library briefly removes a nude painting it deemed "inappropriate."
Provocative art about police brutality in a Madison, Wisconsin library is causing controversy.
Workers around the world are celebrated on May Day. But here in the United States it's actually "Loyalty Day"-- a reminder of some of the darkest days of cultural and political censorship.