Did the College Board Cave to Political Pressure Over AP History?
After months of pressure, the College Board has released a new framework for teaching AP US History. Does this mean the political pressure tactics worked?
After months of pressure, the College Board has released a new framework for teaching AP US History. Does this mean the political pressure tactics worked?
A controversial Chicago rapper appears via hologram at a concert promoting an anti-violence message. City officials cut the power and ended the show early. Can they really squelch speech they don't like?
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts should have answered the Kimono Wednesdays controversy by seizing on the protests as a chance to ask deeper questions and engage the community.
At a public hearing over whether or not to remove LGBT children's books from a public library, one mom's comments stole the show.
Would-be censors in Texas lose in their effort to remove LGBT children's books from the public library. But the fight in Hood County may be far from over.
A graphic novel was challenged in a New Mexico high school. A review committee voted to keep it. So why isn't the book on the shelves? A local reporter dug into the story.
A new Newseum survey shows that Americans have trouble explaining what rights are enshrined in the First Amendment. But when it comes to student speech rights, they take a friendly view of free speech.
City officials want an art gallery to cover a nude painting-- but they can't find a legal justification.
Was Reddit's decision to ban 5 discussion groups a business decision, or a move away from its free speech principles?
Winners of the 11th Annual Youth Film Contest 1. Anne Wade (Cullowhee, North Carolina) "Don't Let Them Take Your Voice" ARTIST STATEMENT: “My film is a black and white silent film that was created out of a desire to speak out against censorship in schools across the nation using a unique and creative idea that engaged myself and [...]
Student artists are tackling police brutality-- and police groups aren't happy about it. Unfortunately, some schools are reacting by removing the work.
Citing a possible violent reaction as a pretext for censoring art is not only wrong, it most certainly leads those who object to free expression to make more threats.
A student project on police and community relations angers local cops-- and school administrators respond by removing it.
After receiving complaints, a Maryland high school removes police brutality artwork. But the students at Oxon Hill aren't submitting to censorship-- they are fighting back.
A California mayor is responding to a vocal critic by attempting to use a questionable copyright claim as a censorship tool.
A celebrated English teacher shared an Allen Ginsberg poem in an AP class. He's not a teacher anymore.
A play about penguins was a hit at an anti-censorship conference. Days later, it was canceled at a nearby school.
Students at a Pennsylvania high school are told by local police that what they tweet could be a crime.
The right-wing provocateur has the right to say what she wants. Does she think Arabs and Muslims have the same rights?
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.
A grandparent tries--yet again--to remove Sherman Alexie's award-winning novel from a school in North Carolina.
Views on censoring the bard 451 years later from a Shakespeare-lover and free speech fighter. Happiest of birthdays to my favorite Elizabethan fellow and bawdiest of bards, William Shakespeare. It’s no secret that this famed playwright has taken heat over the years for his spicy language. His plays boast of themes of sexuality, anti-Semitism, violence, and homosexuality; but do these [...]
Prosecutors are using rap lyrics as a tool to charge rappers with crimes--even when there is no other evidence.
The Jefferson Center has released its round-up of free speech offenders.
Theater students get word that their show is canceled due to inappropriate content. But once the news hits the local TV, the administration changes its tune.
Two more examples of the social media giant's rather peculiar standards about female nudity.
A group of Florida students were set to perform at the Florida State Thespian Festival in Tampa. They did-- but outside the venue.
The ALA's list of the top 10 challenged and banned books includes plenty of familiar names, and teaches some larger lessons about diversity in literature.
At the 28th Session of the Human Rights Council in March 2015, Ms. Farida Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, presented her report on copyright laws and policies and their effect on artistic freedom. The report emphasizes the need to balance intellectual property rights with the need to empower creativity. It supports copyright exceptions and limitations that enable caricature, parody, pastiche and appropriation art, which all borrow recognizably from prior works in order [...]
Just in time for National Poetry Month, we take a look at five banned poems through the ages.
No, senator, you cannot remove a book from the internet.
One of the most prevalent types of censorship today is solely web-based. The Chinese government's online blockade called the "Great Firewall" is one of the most famous examples. Usually acting out of what it considers defensive purposes, the "Great Firewall" operators have recently taken on a more offensive role that affects both China and the rest of the world: Cyber attacks [...]
Some good news for artistic free expression: A US District Court judge ruled that David Adjmi's play 3C, a parody of the hit TV sitcom Three's Company, does not infringe on that program's copyright.
In 1950 the US government burned copies of a magazine because they said it revealed the country's nuclear secrets. A similar dispute is playing out right now — this time without the same kinds of censorship and legal threats.
A high school newspaper investigation into drugs was deemed unsuitable for publication by the school's principal. But a local news outlet heard about the story and decided that good journalism deserves to be read.
A panel discussion about political activism is canceled at the last minute at the Missouri History Museum. Was it a matter of curatorial discretion, or was the inclusion of Palestinian activism the real problem?
A California college removed a teepee art project after complaints-- missing an opportunity to have a real discussion about some vital issues.
Artists in France are adapting NCAC's work.
A dispute over showing a controversial film on campus shows how student groups can manage such controversies without resorting to censorship.