Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore filed a defamation lawsuit against actor Sacha Baron Cohen for implying that he is a paedophile in his TV show.

Kansas state newspaper removed their cartoon in which they compare the mask mandate to the Nazis ordering Jews to board cattle cars.

Rapper Tray Savage was shot dead while driving in the Chatham district of south Chicago, Illinois. As for now, motivation is still unknown.

» Read on issuu.com Targeting the Arts Documenting incidents of censorship has never been enough. From the very beginning Freemuse has attempted to put censorship of music and arts into a larger context. In 2015 we introduced INSIGHT – a series of articles providing readers with analytical stories on censorship of …

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland cancelled the exhibition "The Breath of Empty Space" because of “troubling community response”.

National Coalition Against Censorship in the U.S. has published a toolkit for organising against theatre censorship in public schools, designed to provide students with the resources to navigate tensions in local communities and lead the fight for artistic freedom.

  Amplifying music in the face of censorship A presentation by Austin Dacey, followed by a debate which took place at the conference ‘Right! Freedom of Music & Speech’ on 21 November 2011 in Stockholm. Source See more videos from the conference: right11.se/videos     Related reading on freemuse.org Statement …

The MoMA removed the artwork of artist Ali Yass in advance to prevent tearing up of the drawings as a form of protest planned by the artist.

  The story of ‘Footloose’ follows the young dance maniac Ren McCormack, a boy who comes to a small town where loud music and dancing have been banned. Ariel, a small-town girl takes a liking to newcomer Ren who rebels against the local law that bans rock music. He challenges …

In March 2015, 21-year-old composer Jonas Tarm was about to reach a profound career milestone: His original composition was going to be performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall. But at the last minute, the New York Youth Symphony told Tarm that his Carnegie debut – commissioned by the orchestra as …