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NCAC responds to NY Town’s Move to Censor Civil Rights Mural

By |September 16th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Photo Credit: Jerald Braddock The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) has written to the Town Supervisor of the Town of Greenburgh, New York, regarding its recent call to remove the depiction of Minister Louis Farrakhan, and potentially other controversial figures, from a new town-commissioned mural overseen by the artist [...]

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Lyman Allyn Art Museum in Connecticut Removes Work Deemed “Inappropriate”

By |July 14th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: , |

The Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut, removed a work from an exhibition because it was considered by the museum to be “inappropriate for children.”

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NCAC Urges New York State School District to Allow Students with Differing Views to Display Art on Controversial Issues

By |February 24th, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

NCAC is urging Eastport-South Manor Central School District in Manorville, New York, to allow students of differing views to display art on school grounds.

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NCAC Objects to Removal of Student’s LGBTQ Artwork in Georgia School | Updated

By |February 1st, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

School officials in Athens, Georgia, removed student artwork celebrating gay rights and compared displaying a rainbow flag to displaying a swastika in the classroom.

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New Jersey School Censors Student’s Black Lives Matter Poster in African American Culture Display | Updated

By |November 19th, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

A student’s Black Lives Matter poster was censored at Hillsborough Middle School in New Jersey because of apparent disagreement with the political views it expressed.

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NCAC Criticizes Brooklyn School’s Censorship of Student Mural | UPDATED

By |November 15th, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |

The principal at the elementary school in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood removed a mural created by several fifth graders because of apparent discomfort with some of its content.

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