National Newspaper Association
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Content for Member Papers
NNA provides its members with content to reprint or post to websites.
This content includes columns by directors and NNA member newspapers, Freedom Forum Institute's First Amendment columns/ editorials (available weekly) and more.
Miles and the Monarchs, the 2021 NIE serial story, is here
Jan 14, 2021
Miles and the Monarchs centers on a father and son trip to see the final game of the 1942 Negro League World Series, between the Kansas City Monarchs and the Washington-Homestead Grays. Major League Baseball ...
The First Amendment right to protest has limits
Jan 14, 2021
Gene Policinski talks about the limits to the First Amendment and starts by noting that the First Amendment offers no legal shield from criminal prosecution for violent acts, individually or as part of ...
Protest is how we talk to ourselves as a nation — but violence isn’t protest
Jan 7, 2021
Gene Policinski talks about yesterday's events at the U.S. Capitol as a stain upon the fabric of democracy, and how these actions betray the core principles on which the United States was founded and the ...
Happy new – and old – year: 2020 just won’t go away when it comes to First Amendment issues in 2021
Dec 30, 2020
Gene Policinski talks about the challenging year of 2020 and its many issues over First Amendment freedoms that will most likely flop over into the new year.
American students should learn about Christmas in schools
Dec 23, 2020
David Callaway talks about the question of whether or not it is constitutional to teach about religion in public schools, specifically Christmas, and ways educators can enrich students’ understanding ...
Bill of Rights Day: The ‘right’ day to celebrate our freedom
Dec 17, 2020
Gene Policinski talks about our nation’s annual Bill of Rights Day, which had a bit more reality for more of us in 2020 than in most years, and even though it passed again with little-to-no notice ...
Religious Freedom in the Age of a Global Pandemic
Dec 3, 2020
Trey Daniel talks about how the practice of Religious Freedom, like most other spheres of human activity, has been radically affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Print newspapers create a powerful, lasting and permanent image — never out of sight, out of mind
Nov 30, 2020
Print newspapers have no better champion than the articulate Minnesota publisher, Reed Anfinson, one of America’s foremost leaders in community newspapers. Anfinson has traveled the country espousing ...
Thankful we can speak our minds this Thanksgiving
Nov 24, 2020
Patty Rhule talks about how during this pandemic-era Thanksgiving, all of the freedoms of the First Amendment should be high on the list when counting our blessings and advice on how to keep political ...
