First Amendment Day

The UNC Center for Media Law and Policy will celebrate First Amendment Day on Wednesday, October 8, 2025.

This campus-wide, daylong series of events is designed to both celebrate the First Amendment and explore its role in the lives of Carolina students. Students and other members of the University community will read from banned books and discuss the public university’s special role as a marketplace of ideas and the need to be tolerant when others exercise their rights. As always, First Amendment Day is observed during National Banned Books Week.

1A Day Events

• Banned Books Reading
• AI in the Newsroom: Promise, Peril and Responsibility
• UNC Voter Registration Drive
• First Amendment Trivia Contest
• Press Freedom and the Marketplace of Ideas
• True Crime Goes Legal: From Podcasts to Streaming Rights
• The Administration of Free Speech: A Conversation with former Provost Clemens
• What’s at Stake?: The First Amendment Freedom to Protect Democracy
• Faith Matters: Religious Freedom in Society
• Keynote | Free Press, Free Society: Stories from the Field