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Miles College has a deal to buy Birmingham-Southern College’s 192-acre campus for an undisclosed amount. Trustees for Miles, a private, historically Black institution in Fairfield, Alabama, voted unanimously to approve the purchase agreement. The deal follows a letter of intent Miles submitted to Birmingham-Southern shortly after the college shuttered in May. Terms of the agreement…
The University of South Carolina has taken a noble stand in defense of free speech by refusing to cancel a controversial comedy roast of Vice President Kamala Harris. Unfortunately, the USC student senate didn’t follow suit. USC student group Uncensored America hosted former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos and Proud Boys co-founder Gavin McInnes for yesterday’s event,…
Should public colleges and universities do more to protect the First Amendment rights of students and faculty on campus? Today, the House of Representatives responded with an emphatic YES. On a bipartisan vote this afternoon, the House passed what would be the most comprehensive federal statutory protections for free speech on campus ever. The legislation now heads…
When your free speech rights are violated, FIRE doesn’t back down. After several missives and a final warning to the university, FIRE is filing an accreditor complaint against New York University for flagrantly violating the expressive rights of its students and faculty. NYU has had multiple chances to defend its record, either publicly or privately, but…
We know the pain. We wallow in the sadness. The poets and painters, they are our light in a dangerous and depressed world. For real. If it weren’t for the James Baldwins and Louise Erdriches; or the stories of sadness or narratives love triumphing over oppression, all of the pain, all the sadness–all…
Below is a statement from FIRE Director of Public Advocacy Aaron Terr on California Assembly Bill 2655: How many unconstitutional laws can a state enact in one day? We already explained some of the problems with AB 2839, which criminalizes sharing digitally modified “deceptive content” about candidates for office for any reason, even to criticize it….
Below is a statement from FIRE Vice President of Campus Advocacy Alex Morey on University of Pennsylvania’s sanctions against law professor Amy Wax: After years of promising it would find a way to punish professor Amy Wax for her controversial views on race and gender, Penn delivered today — despite zero evidence Wax ever discriminated…
Though the constitutional competition is great, free speech issues continue to weigh heavily in the scheme of things. Take, for example, the First Amendment issues raised in the following six cases on the Robert Court’s cert. docket: 1. Protests in public places near abortion clinics. The powerhouse team of Paul Clement and Erin Murphy are counsel for…
Introduce yourself in three words or phrases. I’m curious and quite strategic. And I like to hang around with people. What do you like most about your job? It allows me to meet with a lot of people. What I like about my current job is it allows me to combine all of that and…
After an open records request and a public statement from FIRE, the City of San Antonio, Texas, has agreed to stop hiding comments on the public San Antonio Animal Care Services Facebook page. This win comes after several critics of the agency’s euthanasia policy noticed that their comments on the agency’s posts would often disappear….