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A Texas A&M professor was suspended for allegedly criticizing lieutenant governor

Joy Alonzo was suspended and investigated after she allegedly criticized Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at a lecture on the opioid crisis. Free speech advocates call the probe "blatantly inappropriate."

WEKU

The Solution to Chinese Censorship Is Not Show Hearings

Government bullying won’t fix censorship caused by government bullying.

Reason

'Crumbling' Putin's reaction to Wagner rebellion shows he's 'weak' says Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky has called the Russian President "weak" and said the "power he used to have is just crumbling down" in scathing new comments about the Wagner rebellion

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Award-winning Ukrainian writer dies of injuries suffered in Russian missile attack on restaurant

The PEN America rights group says award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has died from her injuries suffered after a Russian missile attack on a popular restaurant last week

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States fight to save books from growing number of bans across U.S.

Illinois this week became the first state to pass a law penalizing libraries that ban books.

Axios

‘And Tango Makes Three’ penguin picture book authors sue Florida over ban under ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law

School district restricts access to a picture book about the true story of a penguin family with two fathers

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Gilbert and the debate over cancelling Russian culture

Elizabeth Gilbert has withdrawn her forthcoming novel “The Snow Forest” from publication amid increasingly vociferous fallout over her decision to set the narrative in Russia while the war in Ukraine is ongoing.

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Biden condemns ‘hysterical’ threats to LGBT+ Americans as White House pushes back on book bans

‘It’s an appeal to fear and it’s an appeal that is totally, thoroughly unjustified and ugly’

The Independent UK

Arkansas librarians are suing to block state law that threatens them with jailtime

Booksellers and library workers face unconsitutional restrictions and ‘extreme punishments’, plaintiffs argue

The Independent UK

Florida mom who tried to ban Amanda Gorman’s book has ties to far-right groups

A woman at the centre of a widely derided complaint attended rallies and protests with extremist groups and posted antisemitic content as she joined far-right book ban activism, reports find

The Independent UK

Amanda Gorman ‘gutted’ after Florida school bans Biden inauguration poem

Poet, 25, vows to fight back after single complaint, which wrongly ascribed The Hill We Climb to Oprah Winfrey, prompts removal

The Guardian - US

Amanda Gorman on her inauguration poem being banned from Miami school: 'I am gutted'

Bob Graham Education Center, a K-8 school in Miami-Dade County, restricted access to Amanda Gorman's acclaimed poem "The Hill We Climb," which she read at President Biden's inauguration, for elementary-aged students after a parent issued a formal complaint on the grounds that the poem was "not educational" and included indirect…

Los Angeles Times

Salman Rushdie renews fight against book-banning -- 3 essential articles on right-wing challenges to what schoolkids can read

No one needs to tell Salman Rushdie about the cost of free speech.

The Conversation

Salman Rushdie makes first public appearance since attack, praising ‘heroes’ who saved him

A surprise speaker at the Pen America gala, the author said ‘if it had not been for these people, I most certainly would not be standing here’

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Salman Rushdie accepts PEN America award in first appearance since stabbing

Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a special prize, the PEN Centenary Courage Award, just nine months being after being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized.

The Times of India

Salman Rushdie makes his first public appearance after a brutal attack in 2022

On August 12, 2022, the news of Booker-winner Salman Rushdie being brutally stabbed during an event at the Chautauqua Institute in New York shocked everyone. The attack was so severe that the author lost vision in one eye. And now, nine months after the brutal attack, Rushdie made his first…

WEKU

PEN America gala honors Salman Rushdie, his first in-person appearance since stabbing

Rushdie, whose attendance had not been announced beforehand, spoke briefly, and dedicated some of his remarks to those who came to his help last August while on stage at a New York literary festival.

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie makes first in-person public appearance since stabbing

Salman Rushdie has made an emotional and unexpected return to public life, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a special prize, the PEN Centenary Courage Award

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Penguin Random House, PEN America, authors and parents sue Florida county for removing books on race and LGBTQ themes

A new lawsuit against a Florida school board marks a “first-of-its-kind challenge to unlawful censorship”.

WEKU

Penguin Random House and 5 authors are suing a Florida school board over book bans

Officials in Escambia County, Fla., removed 10 books from school libraries and restricted access to more than 150 others. Writers' advocacy group PEN America calls the lawsuit the first of its kind.

Salon

Parents sue Fla. district for book ban

The banning of books by the school district violates parents’ and authors’ First Amendment rights, lawsuit argues

Al Jazeera

‘Censorship’: US publisher sues over Florida book restrictions

The lawsuit alleges a county in the Republican-led state is cracking down on access to books on race and LGBTQ identity.

The Independent UK

Penguin Random House sues Florida school district over ‘unconstitutional’ book bans

Federal lawsuit condemns ‘ideologically driven campaign to push certain ideas out of schools’

The Guardian - US

Florida school district sued for violating first amendment rights with book bans

PEN, Random House and parents file lawsuit after rightwing groups seek to ban books that address racism or sexual identity

The Independent UK

Penguin Random House sues Florida school district over book bans

Publisher Penguin Random House and PEN America have sued a Florida school district over its removal of books about race and LGBTQ+ identities

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