New PEN America Report Warns About Dangers of Educational Gag Orders
A wave of alarming legislative efforts to limit teaching and learning on topics including racism, sexism, and American history represent a censorious drive to impose viewpoint and content-based restrictions… More
Suspending Student Group Over Anti-Chinese Government Stickers “Grave Misstep”
According to reports, Emerson College this month launched an investigation of their campus chapter of the conservative student group, Turning Point USA, after the group created and distributed stickers with… More
PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel Testifies on Censorship and Free Speech Issues in China
“The regime’s determination to hunt down dissenters wherever they are instills a sense of fear from which there is no escape, even far beyond Saudi borders.” More
Supreme Court Made Right Call in Student Free Speech Case
PEN America responds to landmark student free speech case Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. . More
Coalition of Education Groups Decry Wave of Legislation Stifling Academic Freedom
Today PEN America issued a joint statement opposing the wave of legislation being introduced in states across the country to stifle education about racism and American history in schools,… More
Yale Decision to Limit Access to Controversial Lecture Runs Counter to Free Expression Commitments
The Yale School of Medicine's decision to limit access to a controversial lecture video runs counter to the school's free expression commitments. More
PEN America Concerned Over Reports Nikole Hannah-Jones Denied Tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill
According to reporting, the UNC-Chapel Hill board of trustees recently chose not to approve tenure for investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, in conjunction with her upcoming appointment. More
Abrupt Cancellation of Ethics Course at Boise State “Unfathomable”
Boise State University this week informed 1,300 students that it was immediately suspending all 52 sections of a general education course on ethics and diversity. More
Third Professor at Texas Community College Effectively Fired After Criticizing School’s Leadership
PEN America today objected to the effective firing of historian Lora Burnett from a Texas community college. More
PEN America Says Dismissal of University of Mississippi Scholar Raises Serious Questions
“This summary dismissal appears an extreme reaction to the facts at hand, raising serious questions and concerns about academic freedom at the University of Mississippi." More
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This summer, add #bannedbooks to your reading list. @washingtonpost asked children’s authors, reading experts, a librarian, and a poet to recommend challenged or banned books for kids and teens this summer: https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2022/06/24/banned-books-summer-reading/
Consultants for Florida Power & Light, the largest electric utility in the US, conducted surveillance on a Jacksonville journalist. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/24/a-florida-power-company-didnt-like-a-journalists-commentary-its-consultants-had-him-followed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#CUBA: PEN International, @PENamerica and @PENCubaExilio condemn “cruel and inhumane” prison sentences imposed without “legal merit” on Cuban artist-activists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel “Osorbo” Castillo Pérez: https://pen-international.org/news/prison-sentences-for-luis-manuel-and-maykel-osorbo-condemned @PEN_LAC
