One of the most frequently banned and challenged books of the past decade has once again been pulled from public school classrooms after one set of parents objected to its content. Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which…
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CBLDF To Honor Geoff Johns’ Iconic Green Lantern Run With ‘Greenest Night’ Event on May 24 In Hollywood!
On Friday, May 24, come celebrate the creativity of Geoff Johns at Greenest Night: A Celebration of Geoff Johns’ Green Lantern benefiting Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! Join Johns’ at the Avalon Bardot Theater in Hollywood, CA for an intimate…
Northville’s Response to the Anne Frank Challenge
Yesterday, we reported that the review committee at Northville Public Schools had elected to keep Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl in middle school classrooms, an important victory for the right to read. What follows is the letter…
Nebraska Library Won’t Remove Batman: The Killing Joke
In a victory for free speech, the review committee for the Columbus, Nebraska, Public Library and denied a challenge from a patron who demanded the removal of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Batman: The Killing Joke from library shelves. Batman:…
Victory in Defense of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl
Two weeks ago, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund joined the Kids Right to Read Project and several other free speech organizations in signing a letter in defense of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. In a victory for…
Cartoonists Resist Censorship Abroad
This week, David Reed with the Missouri NPR affiliate KBIA 91.3 examined editorial cartoons and freedom of expression abroad during his Global Journalist radio show. Among the topics of discussion were Ali Ferzat and Aseem Trivedi, two editorial cartoonists who…