In 2019 Del. Chris Hurst introduced legislation to protect student journalists and their school advisers. That bill died in subcommittee, but Hurst hasn't given up; he introduced a new bill for the upcoming 2020 session. A former journalist turned delegate filed a...
The Amazon Trail: Global Warning
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch raises concerns about the possibility for censorship in our increasingly net-based society. I used to encourage LGBTQ (aka Q) people to write by telling them, “We need to make sure they can’t burn all the books.” While the...
When Women Get Censored
Patriarchy may celebrate the nude image of Titian’s Venus, but it gets uncomfortable when women take up the brush. Norfolk-based artist Alison Stinely became the center of a controversy in the city’s art community this year when a government agency censored her work...
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