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Free Expression Daily Digest: Wed., September 30
Vietnam police detain six over web videos, British journalists face five years in Indonesian jail, and Facebook changes Internet.org name. More
The PEN Ten with Rob Spillman
"I do believe there is a collective purpose to telling the stories that people know to be true, but that they have not yet been able to articulate, or… More
Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” Trilogy and the Preemptive Censorship of Writers of Color
What if the preemptive banning of marginalized writers is just as much a cause of trauma as racist story-telling by powerful white writers? More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Tues., September 29
31 of 32 journalists released in Turkey, Cambodia cracking down on mobile phone and Internet usage, and the U.S. invests millions in Internet freedom technologies. More
Sacrifice and Self-Censorship before Russia’s “Gay Propaganda” Law
For those of us outside Russia, it’s hard to convey the kind of risk Wilke and her publisher were contemplating. The Putin presidency has committed serious violence—only some of… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Mon., September 28
Israel suspends officer over AFP journalists' assault, Mark Zuckerberg announces project to connect refugee camps, and Serbian journalists are harassed by police. More
Eyes, Exile, and Opportunity: Banning Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
"The capital and complex imagination of black people has always been banned, unless it is supportive in the service of the privileged body’s desire to view itself as superior." More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Fri., September 25
The cost of business with China, "Snowden Treaty," and a surveillance program named for 1990's Radiohead hit. More
The Common Core in Action
Writer, blogger, and middle school teacher K. Imani Tennyson kicks off the school year with how a creative curriculum can be incorporated into the Common Core teaching standards for… More
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