In his new book, University of Baltimore U.S. history professor Joshua Clark Davis examines the intersection of police violence, surveillance and the Civil Rights Movement. On Wednesday’s edition of ...

If it seems there are more billboards advertising legal services on our highways and in our cities, it’s because there are. The number of radio spots and outdoor ads taken out by individual attorneys ...

School districts in Texas are working to comply with a new state law that bans what the law calls “indecent” and “profane” ...

The new policy creates a School Board-picked review committee to hear challenges to books but uses language a federal judge ...

Rep. Robert Garcia and his team faced a monumental task on Nov. 5: Sift through more than 20,000 documents obtained from the ...

Books are displayed at the Banned Book Library at American Stage in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2023. (Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times via AP) (CN) — An Idaho law restricting what materials ...

Sarah-Jane Coyle receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Is there such a thing as the “perfect victim”? Is it an old lady who is suddenly mugged on the street? And where does a ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge has permanently blocked the State of Texas from enforcing a law that restricts the content of school library books. Passed and signed into law in 2023, House Bill 900 – ...

After two years of litigation over Texas House Bill 900, a federal judge has granted summary judgment and ordered a permanent injunction to block the mandatory book ratings law. In his October 21 ...

A federal judge has blocked elements of Texas' House Bill 900, which sought to restrict which books are available in school libraries, saying the law is unconstitutional. The 2023 Texas law requiring ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The two-year-long legal battle over a Texas law will likely draw to an end after a federal court judge ruled Tuesday that the law violates the U.S. Constitution. With a similar rating ...

A federal judge recently ruled that a provision of the law, HB 1069, used to remove books describing "sexual conduct" is unconstitutional. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) ...