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People don’t necessarily go to the movies anymore to be immersed in a narrative, but instead they go to be witness to the ...
Joselyn is the grand prize winner of the New York Public Library's National Teen Art Contest, part of their annual Freedom to Read campaign necessitated by the “alarming rise in book bans and ...
New data reported to ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) shows that the majority of book censorship attempts are now originating from organized movements. Pressure groups and government ...
This award meant a great deal to OpenMedia’s team of digital rights activists, especially because intellectual freedom goes to the core of what our organization is trying to defend through the open ...
Bladen County’s America 250th Committee in partnership with Elizabethtown-White Lake Area Chamber of Commerce is announcing this Call to Artists for participation in the 2025-2026 NC First in Freedom ...
Montgomery County has announced that its fourth annual Art and Poetry of Freedom Contest is now open for applications. The contest encourages K through 12th grade students from across Montgomery ...
For an authoritarian society, 'freedom' has very different, truncated connotations than what it may mean for open societies. American universities, by virtue of their monetary and academic heft, have ...
The Bladen County A250 Committee has announced an art contest asking artists to depict their interpretation of freedom. According to coordinators, artists can submit original two-dimensional (2D ...
"There have always been challenges against our books in the public libraries. The Intellectual Freedom Committee, the American Library Association; they first released a 'freedom to read ...
Banned on the Run was conceived by Phillip Stamper-Halpin, director of author development at PRH and a member of the publisher's Intellectual Freedom Taskforce. “As a banned author myself ...
History will judge the Ivies by their courage to defend the principles of intellectual freedom. A coordinated, inspiring message from these institutions would not only protect their own integrity ...