Variety

HUAC hearings turned biz every witch way

For one week in October 1947, the town was enthralled not with a movie opening or a celebrity scandal but with an unfolding drama in Washington, D.C. The hearings of the House Un-American Activities ...
Yahoo

Jane Fonda, other stars, revive the Committee for the First Amendment – a group that emerged when the anti-communist panic came for Hollywood

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Movie stars, led by Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, protest hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947.
The Nation

History’s Lessons for the Second Committee for the First Amendment

Jane Fonda is reviving the Hollywood advocacy group to meet the high-stakes challenges to free expression in the Trump era. Jane Fonda accepts her Lifetime Achievement Award at last winter’s Screen ...
CounterPunch

Make the World Scared Again: U.S. Threatens U.N. Agencies

“Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” was the key question at the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings during the 1950s McCarthy era. At the height of ...
SFGate

Jane Fonda, other stars, revive the Committee for the First Amendment – a group that emerged when the anti-communist panic came for Hollywood

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The membership roll already includes scores of famous actors like Jamie Lee Curtis, ...
Times Union

Jane Fonda, other stars, revive the Committee for the First Amendment – a group that emerged when the anti-communist panic came for Hollywood

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kathy M. Newman, Carnegie Mellon University (THE CONVERSATION) Jane Fonda is joining ...