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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?

Aug 30, 2023

How Mastercard is Endangering Sex Workers

Teacher and activist against censorship, Mary Wood.

Aug 29, 2023

Meet Mary Wood, a Teacher Resisting Censorship

A professor in front of a class full of students.

Aug 8, 2023

Idaho Wants to Jail Professors for Teaching About Abortion

A group using a computer and smartphone.

Aug 1, 2023

Arkansas Wants to Unconstitutionally “Card” People Before They Use Social Media

An individual with a sweatshirt featuring faces of the many victims of police violence.

Jul 13, 2023

10 Years of #BlackLivesMatter: Progress and Backlash