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…
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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…
Facebook Censors Strike Again
Another image has fallen victim to Facebook’s arbitrary enforcement of its policy regarding nudity. This time, the image in question is a photo of the bronze statue of Neptune that resides in Piazza del Nettuno in Bologna, Italy. The mid-sixteenth century…
Gene Yang: Building Bridges with Comics
Gene Yang, acclaimed graphic novelist, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and MacArthur Fellowship award winner, sat down with PBS Newshour at Stonewall Middle School in Manassas, Virginia, to discuss how comics can help young readers embrace diversity and what…
Print Magazine Includes She Changed Comics in Best of 2016!
CBLDF is thrilled and honored that She Changed Comics, our book collecting profiles of more than 60 women who transformed the landscape of free expression and expanded the comics artform, has been included on Print magazine’s list of the Best…
She Changed Comics, CBLDF Defender, & More Resources in 2016!
In CBLDF’s ongoing mission to protect the freedom to read comics, we create several resource publications to combat misconceptions about the format. In 2016, we went bigger than ever, publishing She Changed Comics, four issues of CBLDF Defender, and much more to…
John Lewis to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award for Free Expression
Hard on the heels of receiving the first-ever National Book Award for a comic, Congressman John Lewis will get yet another landmark honor in 2017: the Lifetime Achievement Award for Free Expression from the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The annual…
Freed from Prison, Egyptian Novelist Naji Thanks Supporters Worldwide
A few days after being freed from prison last week, Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji posted a long message to Facebook thanking the supporters who stood by him during his trial and 10-month incarceration for “violating public modesty” with an excerpt…
CBLDF Takes Legal Action to Protect the Freedom to Read in 2016
Among the many tools in our kit is legal action. For individuals, much of our work is behind the scenes and intended to prevent cases from even reaching courts. To defend the First Amendment rights of the wider comics community,…
Announcing the Humble Book Bundle: Science Fiction Manga by Nihei for Charity, Including CBLDF!
BLAME the bundle. Behold, Humble’s first epic team-up with Tsutomu Nihei and our friends at Kodansha Comics! We’ve collected some of Nihei’s most action-packed science fiction manga for your winter reading. Plus, we’re even bundling one month’s subscription to Crunchyroll, where…