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Minnesota Performing Arts Center Censors Play Over Word ‘Mulatto’ in Title; UPDATE: NCAC and DLDF Send Letter to Mayor Kautz

By |April 10th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , |

The play offers a perspective on the experience of growing up biracial -- or "mulatto," a dated term used to describe a person with one black and one white parent. 

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NCAC’s Primer On The Whitney Biennial Controversy: A Timely and Necessary Exchange

By |March 31st, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

In the aftermath of the Whitney Biennial controversy, NCAC has aggregated the best commentary and opinions on the fraught but necessary incident.

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Minnesota High School Cancels Play After Photos Leak of Students Dressed in KKK Costumes

By |March 29th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

The decision to cancel the play was understandable, given the controversy around the photo, but was it the best decision that could have been made?

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‘Stuck in the Middle’ Editor Ariel Schrag on Reading to Grapple With Real Life Problems

By |March 7th, 2017|Categories: Banned Books Week, Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Yesterday, NCAC, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and 6 other free speech and education groups defended Ariel Schrag's acclaimed anthology Stuck in the Middle, which had been challenged in a school library in Oklahoma. NCAC joined CBLDF to ask Schrag for her thoughts on the challenge.

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NCAC Protests the Removal of American Diversity Posters over Alleged “anti-Trump” bias

By |March 1st, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , |

NCAC is urging a Maryland school district to allow its teachers to display a series of posters promoting diversity and inclusion in America after administrators ordered their removal over concerns of political bias.

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