Dedication, we are armed and ready. We cannot give up. We will not give in. No more than ever before, we need your art to continue to be the wind beneath our wings. And, again, i congratulate you and thank you and salute you again for this welldever offse honor. [ applause ] this concludes our program. I would like you to join with me in one final applause and recognition for our t honoree a he helps the next generation of americans. Thank you. Youre watching American History tv. 48 hours of programming of American History every weekend on cspan 3. Follow us on twitter cspan history for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest news. The next, the participants in Landmark Supreme Court cases talk about the legacies. Koramatsu versus United States. During world war ii, brown versus department of education and tinker versus des moines during the vietnam war. The National Constitution center in philadelphia hosted this hourlong event. My name is vince stango. Im the execu
Some cases, and the courts opinions in them so profoundly , alter our constitutional understandings that they can only be rightly called landmark cases, markers of where we have traveled as a nation. As a part of an initiative begun in 2015, the National Constitution center partnered with cspan to create a 12part series illustrating the history, issues, and people involved in monumental landmark cases. Through the resulting online videos and other classroom Resources Available at landmarkcases. Cspan. Org, students and educators can carefully analyze some famous and infamous cases. Last year, we continued this initiative through a series of town hall discussions. Indepth articles on our constitution daily blog and the publication of our 2017 popular civic calendar, which featured 12 beautifully designed mini posters highlighting 15 landmark cases. Todays event is the culmination of this initiative and we are thrilled that our three panelists have joined us to celebrate Constitution Day
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Recognizing those who have promoted Free Expression in areas of speech, the press, religious liberty, and arts and entertainment. Recipients included apple ceo tim cook, u. S. Representative and civil rights leader john lewis, abc for the spares dash before the first reporter Martha Raddatz and Playboy Enterprises founder hugh hefner. This is just over one hour. Good evening, fellow champions of the First Amendment, and welcome to the newseum Second Annual Free Expression awards dinner. We are honored to have you join us tonight to celebrate six men and women whose lives and work has been the embodiment of Free Expression. Now, standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together, and let me move on to more serious subjects. David bradley, a wonderful supporter whos here tonight is a genius at this. The problem is, i dont know any jokes about the First Amendment, less aye all George Carlin on you. [laughing] and where to keep this di
Welcome to the Second Annual Free Expression awards dinner. Were honored to have you join us tonight to celebrate six men and women whose lives and work have been the embodyment of Free Expression. Standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together and let me move on to other subjects. David bradley, a wonderful supporter here is genius at. This the sprob i dont know any jokes. Bt First Amendment. Unless i go all George Carlin on you. And we have to keep this dinner pg. So i did what a modern person would do, i gook willed. I mean i asked alexa, i mean i asked siri. About jokes about the First Amendment. Not much luck there. Not due to the technology. Of course. There are many stories about someone making a joke of the First Amendment and countless stories about whether the First Amendment does or does not cover jokes about mothers in law, police, or various ethnic and vrabel minorities. The answer by the way is yes, yes, and yes.