News & Commentary about Free Speech

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Nov 2, 2023

Why I’m Challenging My School’s Sexist Dress Code Policies

Oct 19, 2023

The Supreme Court Will Set an Important Precedent for Free Speech Online

POSED BY MODEL A young girl using a mobile phone.

Oct 5, 2023

Internet Censorship Won't Make Kids Safe

A graphic of a child looking at a shelf of library books surrounded by other graphics of thought bubbles and lightbulbs.

Sep 27, 2023

10 Advocates on Why They Won’t Stand for Classroom Censorship

A protester holdng a sign stating "Forest Defense =/ Domestic Terrorism" demands the end of planned construction of Atlanta's proposed police training facility, "Cop City" to save the Weelaunee Forest.

Sep 21, 2023

RICO and Domestic Terrorism Charges Against Cop City Activists Send a Chilling Message

Right To Learn illustration featuring a a teacher with a piece of chalk that has vines, a globe, animals and numbers springing from it in front of children's faces.

Sep 15, 2023

On the Frontlines of the Fight Against Classroom Censorship

Students raising their hands in a classroom.

Sep 13, 2023

How Our Affiliates are Fighting for Education Equity

Sep 8, 2023

Protecting Free Speech and the Right to Learn in Florida

High school students march in protest of the district's ban of critical race theory curriculum at Patricia H. Birdsall Sports Park in Temecula, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022.

Sep 7, 2023

What the Fight Against Classroom Censorship is Really About

Library protest.A person walks past empty shelves at the library in Stony Stratford, near Milton Keynes, after residents have spent the week withdrawing their maximum allowance of books to stop the council's plans to close it as part of budget cuts.

Sep 7, 2023

Why Is Texas Eliminating School Libraries?