The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program, a landmark document that details the effectiveness agency's use of torture, will be preserved by the outgoing Obama administration.
On the occasion of Human Rights day, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is announcing the launch of CENSORPEDIA, a crowdsourced Wiki, cataloging over 1,200 individual censorship incidents throughout history.
In a follow up letter, NCAC stresses the district that banned TKAM/ Huck Finn needs an innocent-until-proven-guilty approach to book challenges.
The disciplinary charges constitute a neglect of Winthrop's role as a ‘marketplace of ideas’ and its responsibilities under the First Amendment.
Censorpedia currently contains over 1200 individual incidents collected over the years and contributed by students, NCAC staff and volunteers, artists and, potentially, YOU!
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is defending the place of two masterpieces of American literature-- To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-- in Virginia schools after the books were removed from classrooms because they contain racial slurs.
While private corporations have the legal right to set conditions on their rentals, artists and small alternative art venues such as 50/50 need to push back against their total control of public space.
In his statement, the author of 'Bad Little Children’s Books' has asked ABRAMS not to print another edition of the book, because it has been so widely misunderstood and misconstrued.
The National Coalition Against Censorship's statement on the 'Bad Little Children’s Books' controversy.
The incident is particularly egregious because Accomack County Public Schools has already temporarily removed these universally acclaimed works.
The report is co-authored with the American Association of University Professors, the Student Press Law Center and the College Media Association.
An artwork depicting the Ku Klux Klan, intended to make a statement about post-election U.S.A, was labeled "hate speech" by students at Salem State U.
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is again defending Stephen Chobsky’s young adult novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, after Iowa parents labeled it “obscene” and pushed for its removal from local classrooms.
NCAC has written in defense of Chbosky's oft-challenged novel, which Iowa parents claimed was 'obscene.'
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is calling on a Washington State daycare subsidy program to revise a requirement that considers books with “frightening images” inappropriate for children.
NCAC's letter expresses concern that the "frightening images" stipulation is over broad and may end up excluding valuable literature.
A review committee has been convened to discuss the future of the book in the Dubuque Community school curriculum.
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is urging a Tennessee school to reject calls from a local parent to remove a textbook from a 7th grade curriculum because of its sections on Islam she claims are “indoctrinating.”
NCAC's letter underlines the mistake of conflating religious education with religious indoctrination.
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is calling on the Virginia Board of Education to reject a regulation requiring schools to notify parents whenever books and textbooks containing “sexually explicit materials” are taught.
The proposed regulation is the latest of several similar efforts NCAC has opposed in Virginia.
A post-election letter from NCAC’s Executive Director.
NCAC's Director of Programs reflects on what we do now, to promote speech across political lines, in post-election America.
Their decision to defund the University over the protest would amount to the government engaging in viewpoint discrimination.
According to the Sullivan County Parents Against Islamic Indoctrination, their children's ignorance of Islam is preferred.
"Young readers need challenging books to help them become empathetic, caring, knowledgeable, thoughtful, and mature adults," Bertin and Davis state. "They’ll tell you that themselves, if you just ask them."
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) has responded to a Columbia University independent student-run radio station’s censorship of an invited author because her reading did not match the university’s “values.”
NCAC’s letter condemns the producer’s actions and describes how Columbia’s University's commitment to free speech, academic freedom, and journalistic excellence are incompatible with censorship.
The kickstarter-funded doc. reminds us all free speech protections are shallow when the subjective view of the few is brought to bear on the many.
Facebook, nude art and conservative lawmakers are just a few elements of NCAC's top offenders/defenders of free speech list. But who made the no 1 spots?
Oklahoma LGBT activists are calling into question a local library policy that limits the placement of LGBT-themed books to sections that hold books on sensitive topics such as drug use, incarceration and sexual abuse.
A daycare requirement to prevent young student's access to "frightening" materials may come at the cost of librarian's literary expertise in choosing student reading.
Incidents involving students using school national anthems as an avenue of protest are showing no sign of stopping.
NCAC has joined OpenTheGovernment.org and other allies in protesting a new FBI proposal to exempt its new system of records from parts of the Privacy Act.
Author Laurie Stone was abruptly asked to censor her reading because it did not match the university's values.
The report assesses the reality of the narrative espoused by the loudest critics of contemporary campus culture: that free speech at the American university is facing an existential crisis.
Legal experts believe Trump's continued legal threats to the NY Times are empty, stunts that prove his disrespect for 1st Amendment protections.
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is urging a Virginia high school district to repeal its prior restraint policy for student newspapers.
NCAC has written a letter recommending a Virginia school district to repeal a policy that permits principals to exercise prior review of school newspapers.
The Supreme Court will hear Lee v. Tam, a case involving a band that considers the rejection of its band name, The Slants, a free speech issue.
