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In this opinion piece, Vincent L. Stephens, CAS associate dean for diversity and inclusion, writes about the educational and developmental benefits of competitive speech and debate programs for high school and college students.

This incredible country. i love you so much. there are so many others who are not here today but whom i need to acknowledge. i have a large extended family on both sides. they are watching from florida, north carolina, new jersey, connecticut, new york, massachusetts, colorado, and beyond. i also have incredible friends. three of my college roommates came here today to support me, and i have so many other boosters from miami palmetto senior high school, harvard undergrad, harvard law school and ...

Competition. mrs. berger believed in me and in turn i believed in myself. in the category of great mentors, it was also my great good fortune to have had the chance to clerk for three brilliant jurists. u.s. district judge patty saras, u.s. court of appeals judge bruce selia and supreme court justice stephen breyer. these extraordinary people were exceptional role models. justice breyer in particular not only gave me the greatest job that any young lawyer could ever hope to have, but he also exe...

The Boston Debate League's current season features in-person competition for the first time since the pandemic forced debate online.

Ketanji Brown Jackson recalled the Jewish families who joined with Black families to found Washington D.C.s first integrated school.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to Supreme Court judge, spoke about the special circumstances in which her school was founded.

Biden's nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson says 'the idea of equality — justice — is at the core' of her children's school, which was founded by Jewish families

"My parents taught me that, unlike the many barriers that they had to face growing up, my path was clearer, such that if I worked hard and believed in myself, in America I could do anything or be anything I wanted to be."

In a confirmation hearing, SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson discussed DC-area private school founded in 1945 by Black and Jewish families

Read the opening remarks Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson prepared to read on Monday, the first day of her Supreme Court nomination hearing.