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Hanover County (VA) School District receives advice from NCAC on book challenge policy | Updated

Updated 6/21/2023 – The Hanover County School Board has adopted some of the changes recommended by NCAC including that books will not always be removed pending adjudication if a complainant alleges that they are "pervasively vulgar." However, the policy remains problematic as the district has removed nineteen books from school libraries. 5/18/2023 –The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) recently [...]

By |2023-06-21T11:54:09-04:00May 19th, 2023|Letters, News|
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Claudia Johnson shares thoughts on the right to read

Claudia Johnson is a nationally recognized advocate for free speech and social justice, winner of the inaugural PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award, for her “extraordinary efforts to restore banned literary classics to Florida classrooms”—and author of Stifled Laughter: One Woman's Story About Fighting Censorship, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1994. Fulcrum Publishing has just released a new edition [...]

By |2023-04-21T19:39:18-04:00April 21st, 2023|Blog, Censorship News Issues, News|
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SAS Trainers

NCAC 's Youth Free Expression Program provides advocacy training, guidance on activism to defend banned books and opportunities for leadership on issues like student free press freedom. Students also will receive assistance in amplifying their voices with publishing opportunities. MEET OUR TRAINERS

By |2024-06-25T10:26:48-04:00March 18th, 2023|
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NCAC asks Madison County, VA School Board to keep books in libraries

The National Coalition Against Censorship has written to Madison County School Board in Madison, Virginia, to express our concern with recent district policy changes requiring books that include "explicit sexual content" to be removed even if they have substantial educational value for students. It's our understanding that this policy has already led to the removal of over 20 books [...]

By |2023-02-23T21:08:26-05:00February 15th, 2023|Blog, News, Press Releases|
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Artistic Freedom and the Internet Infrastructure

Companies providing core internet infrastructures—including internet service providers, website host companies, payment processors, and more—rarely have substantial contact with their users, user-generated content, or user activities. And, even though they typically lack expertise, authority, resources, and policies to regulate user content with consistency, many online infrastructure companies do just that. The result has severely restricted free speech on the internet, [...]

By |2024-08-19T06:17:32-04:00December 1st, 2022|Blog, News|
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National Coalition Against Censorship to Celebrate Free Speech Defenders

NEW YORK— Each year National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), an alliance of 59 of the nation’s leading education and publishing organizations, recognizes the notable contributions of Free Speech Defenders whose activism has had a profound impact on the protection of First Amendment rights in schools, libraries, and publishing. Tony Award Winner Daniel J. Watts is the host of the star-studded event [...]

By |2023-09-15T18:13:46-04:00November 9th, 2022|Blog, Events, News, Press Releases|
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Free Speech Defender, First Amendment Attorney

Michael Bamberger Michael Bamberger has a broad background in constitutional law, intellectual property and media law (both from the counseling/transactional and litigation perspective), corporate and securities law and business law. Bamberger is one of the leading First Amendment lawyers in the US.  He has appeared in over 100 First Amendment cases, before the US Supreme Court, nine federal courts of [...]

By |2022-08-09T16:43:08-04:00August 9th, 2022|
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First Amendment Frequently Asked Questions

We answered some of the most common questions people ask us about censorship, the First Amendment, and kids. Nothing in this document is legal advice, and if you believe that the government has violated your First Amendment rights, you should contact a lawyer. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected] if you have additional questions. We offer a downloadable, [...]

By |2024-08-19T06:11:44-04:00April 1st, 2022|
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Spotsylvania County Public Schools Issue Unconstitutional Order to Remove “Sexually Explicit” Books from Libraries | UPDATED: Order Revoked

NCAC has objected to an unconstitutional order from Spotsylvania County Public Schools in Fredericksburg, Virginia, that “sexually explicit” books be removed from district libraries.

By |2021-11-16T10:35:07-05:00November 16th, 2021|News|
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Benefit 2021

2021 Annual Benefit Wednesday, November 10, 2021  6:30pm – 7:00pm EST | VIP Reception 7:00pm – 8:30pm EST | Benefit WATCH THE EVENT HONOREES Judy Blume is one of America’s most beloved authors. Her 29 titles include Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, the five-book series about the irrepressible Fudge, and Forever. [...]

By |2021-11-29T12:29:36-05:00June 3rd, 2021|
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Remembering Toni Morrison

Joan Bertin (former executive director, NCAC), Toni Morrison, Fran Lebowitz “The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the erasure of other voices, of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages flourishing underground, essayists’ questions challenging authority never being posed, unstaged plays, canceled films—that thought is a nightmare. As [...]

By |2019-08-07T10:59:57-04:00August 6th, 2019|Blog|
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