Knowing your First Amendment rights is important to new photojournalist

        “Congress shall make no law…”

According to firstamendmentcenter.org, The First Amendment is a blue print of our personal freedoms that gives us the freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition.

As a photojournalism student, the First Amendment is significant to me not just because it gives us those five freedoms. As an African American female, it gives me the freedom that others before me didn't have the chance to experience without being silenced.

Now, with the exception of censorship, myself and other minorities have a much larger voice in our country, which brings great meaning to the term the melting pot.

With growing social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and Tumblr, many of today's youth, minorities are taking more advantage of their First Amendments rights and freedoms.