This month, we’re exploring the impact of the 2022 Free Expression Award honorees, including Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, who will […]
How Stop AAPI Hate inspired and empowered action
This month, we’re exploring the impact of the 2022 Free Expression Awards honorees, including the founders of Stop AAPI Hate: San Francisco State University Professor Russell Jeung and advocacy group […]
Eric Treene: Upholding religious freedom for all
This month, we’re exploring the impact of the 2022 Free Expression Awards honorees, including Eric Treene, former special counsel for religious discrimination in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. […]
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Reviving voices lost to history and empowering communities today
This month, we’re exploring the impact of the 2022 Free Expression Awards honorees, including Nikole Hannah-Jones, who is Knight Chair in Race and Journalism and founder of the Center for […]
Power Shift Project Announces Trainers Council
The Power Shift Project is proud to announce the formation of the Power Shift Trainers Council, a group that will advise and support the program and other trainers.
Perspective: How Gen Z activists are living and protecting the First Amendment
Zanagee Artis says he got into climate activism too late in life. The senior at Brown University co-founded Zero Hour, a youth-led climate movement, in 2017 when he was 17.
Perspective: These teens are upstanders, not bystanders
Though it is a right protected by the First Amendment, most Americans have never assembled in a protest, rally or march. Gen Z is different: Activists are still among the […]
News: Our New D.C. Headquarters
When we moved out of our offices at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue in early 2020, we couldn’t have imagined that in a few short months the country and much of the […]
First Five Live: Hear two views on hate speech
Freedom of speech is the best-known First Amendment freedom. But free speech faces urgent and important questions, particularly around hostile or hateful expression and how, or if, it should be […]
Perspective: 5 U.S. Olympic athletes who flexed their First Amendment muscles
Ahead of this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, the International Olympic Committee reviewed and loosened its rules about protest on the field of play, but reiterated restrictions on medal podium […]
