First Amendment Center

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The First Amendment Center supports the First Amendment and builds understanding of its core freedoms through education, information, and entertainment.{{cite web | author = Neumann, Caryn E. | date = March 31, 2025 | orig-date = January 1, 2009 | title=First Amendment Center | work = Free Speach Center at MTSU | url = https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/first-amendment-center/ | location = Murfreesboro, TN | publisher = Middle Tennessee State University | access-date=February 2, 2024}}

The center serves as a forum for the study and exploration of free-expression issues, including freedom of speech, of the press and of religion, and the rights to assemble and to petition the government.{{verification needed|date=May 2025}}

Founded by John Seigenthaler, the First Amendment Center is an operating program of the Freedom Forum and is associated with the Newseum and the Diversity Institute.{{or|date=May 2025}}{{cn|date=May 2025}} The center has offices in the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee,{{or|date=May 2025}}{{cn|date=May 2025}} and at the Newseum in Washington, D.C..{{verification needed|date=May 2025}}

The center's programs, including the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum,{{or|date=May 2025}}{{cn|date=May 2025}} provide education and information to the public and groups including First Amendment scholars and experts, educators, government policymakers, legal experts, and students.{{verification needed|date=May 2025}} The center is nonpartisan and does not lobby, litigate or provide legal advice.{{verification needed|date=May 2025}}

The center's website is a source of news, information, and commentary in the nation on First Amendment issues.{{verification needed|date=May 2025}} It features daily updates on news about First Amendment-related developments, as well as detailed reports about U.S. Supreme Court cases involving the First Amendment, and commentary, analysis and special reports on free expression, press freedom, and religious-liberty issues.{{verification needed|date=May 2025}}