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Perspective: Tide may be turning toward religious exemptions from vaccine mandates
May 20, 2021
Courts seem increasingly reluctant to enforce government mandates when faced with religious objections.
Perspective: Sikh Americans defend religious freedom for all
May 13, 2021
David Callaway shares two stories of Sikh Americans who used their First Amendment rights as a shield for the religious freedom of all Americans. Read the column. A plain text version is available for ...
Perspective: Student athletes have a right to peaceful protest
May 6, 2021
Freedom Forum First Amendment Fellow David Hudson Jr. explains why a group of Tennessee state senators were out of bounds in objecting to East Tennessee State University basketball players taking a knee ...
Perspective: Celebrating World Press – and our – Freedom Day
Apr 29, 2021
Gene Policinski explains why even press critics should celebrate World Press Freedom Day.
PERSPECTIVE: Cancel culture can chill free speech; it’s also free speech in action
Apr 22, 2021
Freedom Forum fellow for First Amendment, discusses cancel culture in this month’s edition of First Five Express.
Free Expression Awards: How nine honorees used their First Amendment powers
Apr 8, 2021
In advance of the Freedom Forum’s 2021 Free Expression Awards on April 15, Patty Rhule describes how the nine honorees sparked change through free and fearless expression and asks us to consider ...
Faith on the field: Athletes exercise religious freedom
Apr 1, 2021
Athletes in the public eye face an extra level of scrutiny when expressing their religious beliefs, and the costs can be high, Tristiaña Hinton says, writing about several athletes who nonetheless ...
Celebrating spring’s religious holidays and the First Amendment
Mar 25, 2021
As religious communities prepare to celebrate major holidays, Benjamin P. Marcus describes in a video and column how the First Amendment can be used to help people of all religions and none feel like equal ...
First Amendment tablet finds new home in Philadelphia
Mar 18, 2021
The Freedom Forum has donated the 74-foot-tall First Amendment tablet, etched with the 45 words of the First Amendment that once fronted the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue, to the National Constitution ...
