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"Campus leaders are facing immense, antidemocratic pressures by politicians and others seeking to exploit campus tensions to advance their own political agendas," write three attorneys from the ACLU of Massachusetts.

SALEM — The Massachusetts branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has called for Salem’s Planning Board to stop muting residents at meetings for the content of their remarks after

Book challenges are on the rise across the country and in Massachusetts, with more than four times the amount of challenges from 2021 to 2022.

Bodycam footage obtained by The Eagle shows a police officer in an eighth grade classroom asking to see a copy of “Gender Queer,” and informing the teacher and school principal

An anonymous tipster had complained about the memoir appearing in an 8th-grade classroom.

This month, an anonymous tipster went to police in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to complain about Gender Queer, which is among

Police responded to a Massachusetts middle school with the intent of removing 'Gender Queer,' an oft-banned book dubbed "obscene."

Police in western Massachusetts apologized Thursday after an officer was sent to a middle school to search for a copy of “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe, following a complaint.

A plain-clothed officer, equipped with a body camera, was deployed to W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School in Great Barrington on Dec. 8 to search for the highly controversial book: Gender Queer.

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