The PEN Pod: What to Expect on Election Day and Beyond with Nora Benavidez
“Voting is essential to all the ways that we express ourselves and the way we, frankly, imagine what our future looks like together.” More
What To Expect When You’re Electing: A Reading List
Curated by PEN America’s Literary Programs Department, this reading list highlights books and complementary titles from our signature PEN Out Loud event series. More
[TRANSCRIPT] Behind the Decision Desk: Fox News, the AP, CNN, and What To Expect on Election Night
Decision desk editors at the AP, Fox News, and CNN joined PEN America to discuss how news organizations are navigating the challenges of election night 2020. More
The PEN Pod: On the Debates and the Future of Race and Bias Training with Suzanne Nossel
“This is an administration that, from the beginning, has denigrated the role of the press, has called the press the enemy of the American people.” More
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Free expression organization @PENamerica released a letter signed by more than a dozen other civil liberties organizations opposing federal legislation and proposals that seek to impose a wholesale ban on social media platform TikTok in US .
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ddb/restrict-act-insanely-broad-ban-tiktok-vpns
The superintendent says this ban of NINETEEN MINUTES and 13 other books not a ban. Explain to me how permanently REMOVING a book from a library shelf is not a ban? https://twitter.com/PENamerica/status/1641517467976474641
Yes. ND gov: "The teaching profession is challenging enough without the heavy hand of state government forcing teachers to take on the role of pronoun police." https://thehill.com/homenews/3926656-north-dakota-governor-vetoes-bill-restricting-transgender-students-pronouns/