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Oct 30 2024: Greater than 1,000 figures from the literary and show business– including a number of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer prize, and Booker reward victors– have actually signed an open letter against “illiberal and harmful” cultural boycotts.

Oct 18 2024: The College of Cincinnati revealed on Thursday that the University of Cincinnati Press will close down on June 25. In a release, the university claimed that it had “figured out that the long-lasting economic sustainment of the College of Cincinnati Press is not viable …

Nov 04 2024: After a beneficial legal judgment in August, freedom to review supporters in Alaska have actually racked up a substantial triumph in court over potential book banners. In an October 31 filing, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Institution District in Alaska consented to pay $89,000 to clear up cases …

Nov 01 2024: PEN America has actually released its newest record documenting public college book prohibits for the complete 2023-2024 school year, locating 10,046 restrictions across the country– a greater than 200% rise over the previous academic year. The report, Prohibited in the U.S.A.: Beyond the Shelves, confirms and …

Oct 21 2024: Anti-censorship supporters have signed up with book publisher Penguin Random Home in condemning a Texas region that reclassified an account of European inhabitants’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.

Oct 27 2024: For 2 years, the Republican Pennridge School Board, north of Philadelphia, regulated with a burst of ideological energy. It set up publication bans and curriculum rewrites– the type of national politics pressed across the country by Mommies for Liberty, the conventional advocacy group allied …