Banned Books Week Kicks Off Tomorrow!
Earlier this week, Reuters reported that a school district in Missouri agreed to lift its ban on Slaughterhouse-Five and Twenty Boy Summer, two books the district had completely banned… More
Banned Books Week promotes, protects freedom
For the first time, participants in Banned Books Week this year can take part in a worldwide demonstration of the virtues of their favorite censored literature. Launched in 1982… More
PEN asks Smithsonian to consider implications of video removal
The board of the PEN American Center, the human rights and literary organization, has asked the Smithsonian Board of Regents to consider some of the broader issues of censorship… More
PEN Calls on Smithsonian Institution to Reinstate Controversial Video
PEN American Center has sent a letter to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and the Director of the National Portrait Gallery urging them to review the… More
PEN Presses Yale to Restore Images to Book on Cartoon Controversy
PEN American Center has sent a letter to the President of Yale University and the Board of the Yale Corporation urging the University to review a decision to remove… More
Pen Makes Appeal to Yale Press
PEN American Center has joined the controversy over a decision by Yale University Press to excise images of Muhammad from one of its new books and urged Yale to… More
Free Speech Orgs Criticize Dismissal of Wisconsin Library Board
Four members of a library board in West Bend, Wis., were dismissed last week for refusing to remove controversial books from the library’s young adult section—and yesterday, the American… More
PEN Joins in Condemning Suppression, Censorship of Climate Science
Following a House Oversight Committee hearing that probed censorship of government climate scientists, PEN and eight other leading First Amendment and academic organizations have called for continuing congressional oversight… More
Free Speech Groups Urge Court to Reject FCC Censorship
New standards adopted by the Federal Communications Commission to censor “indecency” on the airwaves are overly vague and unconstitutional, a coalition of 20 free speech organizations, community broadcasters, filmmakers,… More
Bryant Park event reflects on the freedoms to write and read
PEN American Center, National Coalition Against Censorship and American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression sponsored this reading to reflect on the freedoms to write and read seventy years after… More
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