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Justice Department Will Back Suit on ‘Free Speech’ Zone
Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared Tuesday at Georgetown University Law Center that freedom of thought and speech are “under attack” on American campuses. More
Ai Weiwei Defends the Guggenheim’s China Show Against Animal Rights Protests
Controversy rages on over the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World.” The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has now stepped in to… More
In speech, Jeff Sessions slams universities for stifling free speech
Today’s typical American university clamps down on free speech, pushes political correctness, and shelters the “fragile egos” of its students, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared Tuesday in a… More
Attorney General: Speech Codes Make College ‘a Shelter for Fragile Egos’
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that speech codes at America's universities are turning colleges into "an echo chamber of political and homogeneous thought, a shelter for fragile egos." More
A lesson on the free-speech debate Colin Kaepernick started
In a speech rich in irony, Attorney General Jeff Sessions blasted colleges and universities Tuesday for becoming “a shelter for fragile egos” and infringing on the free-speech rights of… More
Yiannopoulos pledges to speak on UC Berkeley campus Sunday, welcome or not
A far-right campus event called off by student organizers and UC Berkeley officials may turn into an unsponsored rally after promoter Milo Yiannopoulos insisted Saturday he would show up… More
US group vows to defend Qatari journalists on siege ‘terror list’
Chairman of Qatar’s National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) Dr Ali bin Smaikh al-Marri yesterday discussed with PEN America the issue of Qatari journalists, media professionals and writers whose names… More
PEN America among arts organizations opposing travel ban
PEN America and the Sundance Institute are among nearly 30 arts organizations that have filed a brief that calls on the Supreme Court to strike down the Trump administration’s… More
Well-Read Black Girl’s Inaugural Festival Is a Homecoming
The inaugural Well-Read Black Girl (WRBG) Festival was a family affair, truly. Or better yet, in the words of Shirleen Robinson, a WRBG book club member and attendee, it… More
The cost of social media surveillance
ACCORDING to Wiki.com, social media refers to ‘interaction among people in which they create, share and/or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and network.’ More