Three free speech groups, including the ACLU of Colorado, have accused the History Colorado Center, a nonprofit museum linked to the state’s Department of Higher Education, of censoring an artwork that contained pro-Palestine symbols and criticism of ICE and two United States senators. The allegedly censored painting, Denver-based illustrator Madalyn Drewno’s “None of Us Are Free Until All of Us Are Free” (2025), portrayed Ivy Ha, a community member who fled the Vietnam War, and her daughter Joie, against a background of collaged figures, including Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, who had been detained for their views on Gaza. The work also features Palestinian flags, anti-ICE slogans, Colorado Governor Jared Polis with a red hand over his mouth, and accuses the state’s Democratic Senator Michael Bennett of “fund[ing] genocide.” Drewno said she was notified that the museum could not show her work in compliance with Colorado’s Fair Campaign Practices Act, which prohibits state agen...