News & Commentary about Artistic Expression

The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

Dec 11, 2024

Can You Define Pornography? Neither Can the Government.

A hand reaches for a book among banned books.

Sep 17, 2024

ACLU Bus Tour Brings Banned Books to Georgia

Jason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, 2020-2022. Stands in front of a bookshelf.

May 23, 2024

Jason Reynolds Is Creating a Literary Archive for the Next Generation

With the U.S Capitol in the back ground thousands of demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women's March in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021.

Dec 14, 2023

2023 in Review: The Latest on the Stories That Made Our Year

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?

Feb 23, 2023

Jon Batiste on the Joy of Black Music

Feb 16, 2023

Author George Johnson on Writing Black, Queer — and Banned — Stories

Feb 16, 2023

Their Memoir Is One of the Most Banned Books in America

Jan 12, 2023

The Dangers of Drag Censorship with Peppermint

A group of students reading around a desk.

Sep 19, 2022

How to Start a Banned Book Club

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News & Commentary about Artistic Expression