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Banned Books U.S. Free Expression

Report: 1,586 School Book Bans and Restrictions in 86 School Districts Across 26 States

April 7, 2022
Global Free Expression World Voices Festival

2022 PEN World Voices Festival Will Bring International Writers and Thinkers to NYC May 11-14 For a Unique Intellectual Assemblage Amid Conflict

April 5, 2022
Global Free Expression

Putin Continues Destruction of Independent Media by Declaring Eight Media Figures ‘Foreign Agents’

April 4, 2022
Global Free Expression

PEN America Responds to the Deaths of Filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius and Photojournalist Maksim Levin in Ukraine

April 4, 2022
Global Free Expression

PEN America and PEN International Condemn Six-Year Prison Sentence for Cuban Musician Abel Lescay for His Participation in Peaceful Mass Protests Last July

April 1, 2022
PEN America Joins Legal Effort Defending the Right to Protest in Oklahoma

March 31, 2022
Organizational

PEN America Launches Utah Chapter

March 24, 2022
In Response to Reported Disruption of Yale Law School Civil Liberties Forum, PEN America Says Dissent Should not Cross a Line to Censor Speakers

March 17, 2022
Global Free Expression

PEN America Reacts with Alarm to News of Intimidation of Chinese Dissidents in U.S.

March 17, 2022
Global Free Expression

PEN America: All Efforts Must be Made to Protect Journalists Covering the War in Ukraine

March 14, 2022
U.S. Free Expression

Online Conversation March 16 on Access to Books in Prisons and the Use of E-Readers

March 14, 2022
Banned Books U.S. Free Expression

Florida Bill Would Let Parents and Citizens Challenge Any Book Used in Schools

March 11, 2022