In the weeks since it became known that a Delaware school board removed emily m. danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post as an option on a summer reading list for incoming freshman, we’ve seen a fantastic and heartening response from…
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Only One More Day for the Humble Dynamite 10th Anniversary Bundle!
The Humble Dynamite 10th Anniversary Bundle features several dozen amazing books, and it has already raised thousands of dollars for charity. You have only one more day to name your price for the bundle, which benefits CBLDF, Doctors Without Borders,…
Delaware School Board Removes The Miseducation of Cameron Post From Reading List
Yet another school district, in Delaware this time, has removed a book from a summer reading list without following its own procedure for reviewing challenged materials. The Cape-Gazette newspaper reported today that the Cape Henlopen school board voted on June…
Supreme Court Says No to Warrantless Cellphone Searches by Police
As you may have heard, this week the Supreme Court unanimously decided that police must obtain a warrant to search the cellphone of someone they arrest. What does this mean for comics fans and professionals? We’re glad you asked! First,…
Emma Rios, Frank Quitely & More Team Up with TFAW to Donate to the CBLDF SDCC Auction
Since 2009, Things From Another World (TFAW) has proudly teamed up with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) to solicit donations of original art for their annual auction at San Diego Comic-Con, helping to raise more than $100,000 to…
Humble Dynamite 10th Anniversary Bundle Rewards Fans to Benefit CBLDF!
To celebrate their first decade of comic book publishing, Dynamite Entertainment launches its first ever Humble Bundle promotion which will allow fans to purchase over 120 digital comics books and graphic novels (the largest Humble Bumble comics collection in history) at…
Florida School District Removes Paper Towns From Reading List
Florida seems to be the place for unilateral book bans this summer. A few weeks after a Pensacola high school principal cancelled an entire summer reading program rather than let students read Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, now a Tampa-area school…
CBLDF Heads South for HEROES CON
CBLDF is returning to Charlotte, North Carolina, this weekend, where we are excited to be exhibiting at HeroesCon 2014 booth 1222! Heroes Convention was founded in 1982 by Shelton Drum, the owner of Charlotte’s Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find comics…
Supreme Court Delivers Unanimous Decision in Key Free Speech Victory
On Monday, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous 9-0 ruling for Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, upheld the right of people and organizations to preemptively challenge a law that infringes on First Amendment rights. The decision represents a key…
This Compromise Is Not Acceptable: CBLDF Joins Coalition Condemning South Carolina Budget Provision
Today, CBLDF joined a coalition of free speech advocates led by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the ACLU of South Carolina in issuing a joint statement that condemns a recent budget provision “compromise” that penalizes two state universities for…