Recording of MLK’s 1st ‘I Have a Dream’ speech discovered
Before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech to hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington in 1963, he fine-tuned his civil rights message before a much smaller audience in North Carolina.
Freedom Trail marker to be unveiled
The Mississippi Freedom Trail will unveil Monday a marker commemorating the “Black Power” speech by Civil Rights activist Stokely Carmichael.
South Korean zoo elephant imitates human speech
An elephant in a South Korean zoo is using his trunk to pick up not only food, but also human vocabulary.
The Kid’s speech: Starkville’s Xu gets national exposure in Huffington Post
After he gave his graduation speech, Brian Xu quietly walked back to his seat on the front row. It was only after he sat down that the crowd in Humphrey Coliseum burst into applause, eventually rising to a standing ovation for the Starkville High School valedictorian.
Our View: The power of the spoken word
Of the courses we wish we had taken in high school and didn’t, speech ranks high on the list.