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PEN America: Detention of Russian Journalist Perpetuates Trend of Government Harassment of Press
PEN America calls on the Russian government to immediately release Ivan Golunov, an unjustly detained journalist, and to drop the false accusations against him. A country where most media… More
DARE: YouTube Crackdown on Extremism Also Deleted Videos Combating Extremism
YouTube's new policy to remove extremist content also led to removal of video content about how to combat extremism, affecting journalists and educators... More
DARE: YouTube Bans Neo-Nazi and Holocaust-Denial Videos in Push against Hate Speech
YouTube takes new steps against hate speech on its platform, banning neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial videos. A Pew Center survey seems to indicate that... More
PEN America LA Awarded California Arts Council “Local Impact” Grant for Literary Mentorship Program
“Emerging Voices is grateful to receive support from the California Arts Council, allowing us to continue our decades-long mission to enrich and diversify the literary community in Los Angeles… More
PEN America Urges Illinois Prison Officials to Reverse ‘Troubling’ Decision to Remove 200+ Books in a Prison Library
"The fact that these removed books deal primarily with contemporary racial issues is, unfortunately, not a surprise to us,” said James Tager, Deputy Director of Free Expression Research and… More
DARE: Federal Judge Cites the First Amendment in Throwing out Criminal Charges against Neo-Nazis
A federal judge cites the First Amendment in throwing out criminal charges against neo-Nazis. The Trump administration’s major new travel restrictions on... More
“I Started to Write the Way I Needed To”: An Essay by 2019 Emerging Voices Fellow T.K. Lê
"There is no time left to be small. This year, I took a risk: I called myself a writer, and I started to write the way I needed to." More
U.S. Government’s New ‘Extreme Vetting’ Policy for Visa Applicants May Curtail Free Expression Online, Says PEN America
“The U.S. government’s new policy is unlikely to provide any real security benefit and instead conjures up the way authoritarian governments seek to limit the free exchange of ideas,”… More
DARE: Tool for Journalists: Newsroom Transparency Tracker, for Assessing Trustworthiness of News
PEN America launches its newest initiative in partnership with the Trust Project: the Newsroom Transparency Tracker that empowers the public to make... More
“We Cannot Help but Feel Sorrow”: On Commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre
It is illegal to discuss the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China, which is why it is important that people of conscience around the globe remember this day. More