First Amendment Studies News Today

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — If you love true crime tales, you won’t want to miss Middle Tennessee State University’s next Distinguished Lecture Series guest speaker. Author and private investigator Catherine “Cat” Townsend — known for her podcast “Hell and Gone” — will speak at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11, in MTSU’s Tu...

Efforts to stop the release of Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale’s writings, if successful, would be an unprecedented move that could have bigger implications going forward, an open-government expert told The Post.  

The preacher turned political figure died Thursday at the age of 91. Two decades ago, Esquire examined his influence on the Christian conservative movement.

Fifty years ago today, the United States Supreme Court ruled on a case dealing with the right of a Chattanooga student to wear a Confederate emblem on his jacket, and that ruling seems to have been a precedent for subsequent court rulings on similar matters.

MURFREESBORO  — National Book Award-winning scholar Imani Perry will discuss how one region’s people and cultures have influenced a nation when she travels “South to America” to visit Middle Tennessee State University Thursday, Feb. 9.   Perry, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and an interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literat...

Lambert hires Paige Wirth as senior director, a newly created position at the company.

COVID-19 changed the way citizens interacted with their elected bodies across Tennessee. On March 20, 2020, Gov. Bill Lee issued an emergency order allowing city councils, county commissions, school boards and other panels accountable to to the people to meet remotely instead of in-person. The order has been extended several times and currently will expire on April 28. That created safety and convenience but also technical headaches and limited or virtually no access for citizens who pre...