Best of the Web Today: Intestinally Challenged

FIRE continues to survey and report on violations of individual rights, making sure protesters and journalists alike do not face punishment for exercising their First Amendment rights.

FIRE sent a letter to a New Jersey school board that apparently decided public discussion of complaints against it is only acceptable when the board likes what’s being said.

In 1892, a mob destroyed a Memphis newspaper after it published an anti lynching editorial. Through death threats and violence, they tried to erase journalist Ida B. Wells’s message. Instead, they made her fight impossible to ignore.

Residents do not need to agree with public officials to speak at a government meeting.