For ongoing updates on developing issues, please see NCAC’s Coronavirus Pandemic Timeline here. The National Coalition Against Censorship is closely following developments in the United States that ...

NCAC condemns Rep. Andy Harris for threatening student reporter Cat Murphy with arrest for recording him. The First Amendment ...

Corporate courage is contagious. Companies that stand up for free speech protect both democracy and their bottom line.

In April, NCAC drafted a letter in response to a Pennsylvania school's decision to remove Jeanette Walls’ The Glass Castle from the ninth grade reading list at West Allegheny High School in ...

In communities across the country, an organized political attack on books in schools threatens the education of America’s children. These ongoing attempts to purge schools of books represent a ...

Cartoonist Stephen Pastis, creator of the popular comic Pearls Before Swine, announced on his Facebook yesterday that his July 27 strip was pulled by syndicators and newspapers for being overly ...

The Free Expression Educators Handbook contains practical tools and advice for managing book challenges and censorship controversies in schools and school libraries. The handbook, created by NCAC in ...

In a case seen as a test of whether text-only fiction can be considered legally obscene, Thomas Alan Arthur has been indicted on seven counts of obscenity-related crimes for hosting an erotic fiction ...

NEW YORK – The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) announced today that Executive Director Christopher M. Finan will retire this summer after 40 years of defending free expression and First ...

The National Coalition Against Censorship has written to the school board of Benton School District in Arkansas following their removal of two books from school library shelves. Both Kathleen Gros’ Jo ...

Monroe County Schools in Tennessee may have improperly ordered the removal of 574 books from school libraries, in response to Tennessee’s Age-Appropriate Materials Act, which considers certain books ...

Yesterday, President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.” The Executive Order aims to inhibit the government’s ability to censor–or ...