In 2014, South Carolina legislators displayed their utter disregard for academic freedom when they attempted to enact punitive budget cuts against two public institutions of higher education that utilized LGBTQ-themed books–including Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home–in voluntary reading programs for students.…
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Announcing the Humble RPG Book Bundle: Pathfinder Worldscape Presented by Paizo and Dynamite
In celebration of the launch of the “Humble RPG Book Bundle: Pathfinder Worldscape presented by Paizo and Dynamite,” Paizo, publisher of the award-winning Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and Dynamite Comics, publisher of best-selling comic book titles and properties, will host a…
Congressional Tug-of-War Over Art Contest Painting Continues
Congressman Duncan Hunter of California personally removed a student art contest painting from the wall of a U.S. Capitol office building late last week, claiming he was exercising his First Amendment right to express disapproval of the work because he…
Charlie Hebdo Two Years Later
This past Saturday, January 7, marked the second anniversary of the attack that killed 12 people, including five well-known cartoonists, at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Below, we’ve brought together a few of the memorials, reflections, and…
Facebook Blocks Anti-Racist Cartoon
An anti-racist cartoon by Austrian artist Manfred Deix has fallen prey to Facebook’s arbitrary enforcement of their content standards reports Variety. Over the weekend, the cartoon was blocked from the Manfred DEIX Forever Facebook page, and several users who took it…
Start Your New Year with New Signed Books by Neil Gaiman, G. Willow Wilson, and More!
Help CBLDF prepare for 2017 by getting yourself some excellent signed books to kick off the New Year! We have signed goodness from Neil Gaiman, G. Willow Wilson, Sarah Glidden, Raina Telgemeier and more, so treat yourself! We are currently…
Watch Manga Great Tsutomu Nihei at Work
This week, Crunchyroll shared a video of manga great Tsutomu Nihei at work, drawing Tsumugi from his popular Knights of Sidonia series. Nihei recently teamed up with publisher Kodansha and Humble Bundle to offer the Humble Book Bundle: Science Fiction Manga by Nihei.…
CBLDF Joins Statement in Support of Simon & Schuster’s Right to Publish
CBLDF and other organizational members of the National Coalition Against Censorship this week issued a statement regarding calls to boycott all books from publisher Simon & Schuster after one of its imprints announced the upcoming release of a memoir by…
Congressman Defends Student Art Contest Winner from Calls for Censorship
A Missouri Congressman is staunchly defending a police-brutality-themed painting by a high school student from his district, despite a Fox News commentator’s call for it to be removed from a corridor of the Congressional office building where it has hung…
Pro-Life Poster Raises Free Speech Concerns in Indiana School
In response to administrators’ order to remove a pro-life poster at a Carmel Clay School in Indiana, the National Coalition Against Censorship sent a letter to the superintendent and principal stating that the decision not only violates the First Amendment, but…