How Three Students Reclaimed Banned Books and Made a National Movement

How Three Students Reclaimed Banned Books and Made a National Movement

When 97 books were pulled from school libraries in Beaufort County, SC, three high school students—Isabella Troy Brazoban, Elizabeth Foster, and Millie Bennett—refused to stay silent. Their bold response to censorship launched a youth-led movement that reversed bans, inspired a national documentary, and redefined what student activism looks like in the fight for intellectual freedom.

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The Freedom of Expression and protection of artistic rights: Are we doing enough? 

The Freedom of Expression and protection of artistic rights: Are we doing enough? 

Freedom of Expression as a universal human right, a main pillar of democracy and a pre-requisite for artistic creativity, is under threat in our world today.  Carving out a space for free expression has always been a high-cost fight for artists under autocratic rule. Today, that space is contested even in established western democracies that has traditionally provided save havens for prosecuted artists from the global south. 

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