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Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming grilled a witness during a Thursday hearing, asking if she believed preventing teachers from showing first graders pornographic magazines was “censorship.”

PEN America is committed to center anti-racist practices in all aspects of our organization’s internal and external work.

PEN America today welcomed the U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to impose sanctions on the 15 Khordad Foundation, an Iran-based foundation linked to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that had placed a multimillion-dollar bounty on Salman Rushdie’s life in 1989.

Macmillan Publishers (NEW YORK) — Author George M. Johnson has found himself at the center of a culture war over what kids can read. Johnson’s memoir, “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” which chronicles his experience growing up as

Macmillan Publishers(NEW YORK) -- Author George M. Johnson has found himself at the center of a culture war over what kids can read. Johnson’s memoir, “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” which chronicles his experience growing up as a Black queer man, is the second most banned book in the U.S. and has been taken off the

(NEW YORK) — Author George M. Johnson has found himself at the center of a culture war over what kids can read. Johnson’s memoir, “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” which chronicles his experience growing up as a Black queer man, is the second most banned book […]

As book bans surge in 2022, "All Boys Aren't Blue" author George M. Johnson has found himself at the center of a culture war over what kids can read.

Macmillan Publishers(NEW YORK) -- Author George M. Johnson has found himself at the center of a culture war over what kids can read. Johnson's memoir, "All Boys

(NEW YORK) -- Author George M. Johnson has found himself at the center of a culture war over what kids can read. Johnson’s memoir, “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” which

The shattering news that four democracy activists were secretly executed at the end of July by Myanmar’s military junta demands a strong response, amid well-founded fears that the military is preparing to escalate its campaign of terror against civilians. The executions on Saturday, July 23 of the writer Ko Jimmy and the hip hop artist and former member of Parliament U Phyo Zaya Thaw were carried out after the two men were tried by a military tribunal on baseless charges of terrorism. The junt...