Humanities to Go Online: The First Amendment
Friday, October 164:00—5:00 PMVirtualBarrington Public Library105 Ramsdell Lane, Barrington, NH, 03825
Join New Hampshire Humanities on October 16th at 4:00 pm for Humanities to Go Online: First Amendment.
The First Amendment to the Constitution describes the process of becoming an actualized citizen. It begins with the freedom to follow a higher moral standard (freedom of religion) and ends with political protest (freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances). This Zoom talk, presented by Dr. Meg Mott, will consider how the Framers understood these First Freedoms and how we might think about them in the context of our current racial reckoning. Why does the First Amendment make it so hard to curtail offensive speech?