Eleven Jamestown High School students participated in the 2018 Optimist Oratorical Contest at the Winifred Crawford Dibert Boys & Girls Club. JHS sophomore, Karley Kennedy won first place in the girls ...

Ronit Goswami, a student at Goshen College, speaks Feb. 18 about homelessness as he competes in the 2020 intercollegiate C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest administered by Mennonite Central ...

Submitted by Steven Sebaugh The Optimist Club of Jackson and the Noon Optimist Club of Jackson presented the contestants of the Oratorical (Speech) Contest of 2020. Pictured, from left, is Steven ...

America has been working to fully live up to the ideals laid out in the Declaration of Independence ever since the document was printed on July 4, 1776. So while the U.S. tends to go all out ...

Sen. Cory Booker walks toward reporters after delivering a record-setting 25-hour speech for the U.S. Senate at the Capitol on April 1, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Win McNamee/Getty Images Democratic ...

The Jordan High School Speech Team just came off their strongest weekend to date, winning the sectional meet, a feat that Amy Peters said is a first in her 12 years as the speech coach, and sending a ...

MACON, Ga. — Bibb County high school students gathered at the Elaine Lucas Senior Center Saturday morning to share speeches based on a Martin Luther King, Jr. quote. The quote says, "Our lives begin ...

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Adam Frankel is VP, External Affairs at Andela. Previously, he was Special Assistant and Senior Speechwriter to President Barack Obama. By far, the best way to learn how to write speeches is to read ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Booker’s speech detailed his concerns about President Donald Trump’s new executive ...