“This case is another line in the sand when it comes to a free press,” said RCFP Vice President of Policy Gabe Rottman.

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In the face of repeated attacks on press freedom, RCFP stepped up time and again to defend journalists and the public’s right to know.

Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House was an annus horribilis. As the curtain was falling on 2025, President Trump’s handpicked Board of Trustees slapped his name on the John F. Kennedy…

Photographer Janette Beckman and curator Julie Grahame have organized a one time fundraiser for the ACLU that showcases images of musicians who have recorded protest songs or are known for their activ...

With democracy under assault, "Fall of Freedom," a national artist-led protest, has issued a call for creative resistance, of actions against censorship, beginning Friday.

For more than 200 years, the nine enslaved Africans who lived in the Executive Mansion, located at 190 High (Market) Street in Philadelphia, were erased from history. This lost history was uncovere…

Today, as in the past, activists are raising their voices in protest of efforts to whitewash American history.

Washington Commanders’ $8B stadium plan projects $24.2B impact but faces criticism over $2.5B taxpayer subsidies and flawed economic claims.

Memorial Day is a time to remember and honor military personnel who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect the nation’s freedoms and democratic ideals. The DEI – Didn’t Earn It – crowd that’s attac…

Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff. For Immediate Release / May 1, 2025 (New York, NY) — The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Historical Assoc...

Trump's threat to withhold federal funds because of "improper ideology" could have a chilling effect on the museum's programming.

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow

These are not the stray provocations of a thin-skinned politician, but a sustained campaign to intimidate, manipulate and muzzle institutions that hold power accountable. We cannot let this sinister b...

Ken Johnston, Philadelphia's "walking artist" who started a walk from Harlem to Canada in July, arrived at St. Catharines, Ontario, on Saturday. He was walking to honor Harriet Tubman.

Phil Eil shares a collection of FOIA-fueled nonfiction books.

It’s Sunshine Week but there’s nothing but clouds in Washington, DC, where President Trump and Elon Musk are spreading chaos and sowing fear. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has il…

RCFP attorneys are representing the journalist in her effort to access records related to the 76ers’ now-abandoned plans to build an arena near Chinatown.

RCFP attorneys are representing the journalist in her effort to access records related to the 76ers’ now-abandoned plans to build an arena near Chinatown.

In 2021, SEPTA caught flack because a painting at its Fifth Street station misspelled Frederick Douglass' first name. This month, a historian noticed another error in Charles Willson Peale's name.

The city and SEPTA have defied a 2023 order in support of my public records request into the arena negotiations. Their efforts to block the release of the files beg the question: What are they hiding?