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Time to Change the Training | Russell Ellis | TEDxSUNYGeneseo "One of the most revealing and honest TED talks I've seen." -- Ike Berenguer Thank you Ike for sharing on Facebook where I saw it. Russell Ellis was raised in the mountains of North Carolina where racism was “so casual it was culture”. Now he is a “reformed racist” who aims to teach other white people how to deconstruct their own racism. Listen to this powerful speech in which he talks about his childhood, the cycle of white supremacy, and what white people can do to “BREAK THE CYCLE”! Russell Ellis was raised in the mountains of North Carolina where racism was “so casual it was culture”. Now he is a “reformed racist” who aims to teach other white people how to deconstruct their own racism. Listen to this powerful speech in which he talks about his childhood, the cycle of white supremacy and what white people can do to “BREAK THE CYCLE”! This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but ...

Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. took his oath as the 17th president of the Philippines at the National Museum. June 30, Thursday: Hosed down the new cement patio this morning. Unfortunately, I saw a crack extending from the corner of the house on the right. View from where the hot tub will be.

Watch the full speech of presidential candidate Leni Robredo from the 'Pink Sunday' rally held in Quezon City on Sunday, February 13 WATCH: Here is a bird's eye view of the thousands of Kakampinks who flocked to the Quezon Memorial Circle for the "Pink Sunday" rally of presidential bet Leni Robredo and running mate Sen Kiko Pangilinan. #PHVote | via @maracepeda 📽️ Team Kiko Pangilinan pic.twitter.com/BbVJq1myt9 — Rappler (@rapplerdotcom) February 13, 2022 Presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo and her running mate Sen Kiko Pangilinan won’t be attending the debates hosted by SMNI of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, who is on the FBI’s most wanted list for sex trafficking. Tandem already set to visit Panay Island on Feb 15-16. | @maracepeda pic.twitter.com/db1GbuRLR6 — Rappler (@rapplerdotcom) February 14, 2022

Here's Rappler CEO Maria Ressa's full speech at the Nobel Peace Prize awarding ceremony held on Friday, December 10 Well-deserved. Congratulations. Mabuhay! #filipina #filipino #pinoypride 🇵🇭 "Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality, no democracy, and it becomes impossible to deal with our world’s existential problems..." Read @mariaressa 's full #NobelPrize lecture: https://t.co/KxbsyMt2kJ pic.twitter.com/v9qUtERFb7 — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) December 10, 2021 "Every day, I live with the real threat of spending the rest of my life in jail just because I’m a journalist. When I go home, I have no idea what the future holds, but it’s worth the risk." - 2021 peace laureate Maria Ressa ( @mariaressa ) in her #NobelPrize lecture. pic.twitter.com/tTFhnLZdSC — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) December 10, 2021

For all intensive purposes, vocal fry and uptalk is like sooo annoying ^ ? "The central fact of language is that it changes all the time...You can't freeze it in place." There is a good reason we no longer talk like Billy Shakespeare. Join us . For the latest comments on Pinoybuilt.com , follow our forum .

Howard University alumnus Chadwick Boseman provides words of inspiration to the Class of 2018 during Howard University's 150th Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 12 in Washington, D.C. Read the transcript of Chadwick Boseman's speech: It is a great privilege, graduates to address you on your day, a day marking one of the most important accomplishments of your life to date. This is a magical place, a place where the dynamics of positive and negative seem to exist in extremes. I remember walking across this yard on what seemed to be a random day, my head down lost in my own world of issues like many of you do daily. I’m almost at the center of the yard. I raised my head and Muhammad Ali was walking towards me. Time seemed to slow down as his eyes locked on mine and opened wide. He raised his fist to a quintessential guard. I was game to play along with him, to act as if I was a worthy opponent. What an honor to be challenged by the goat, the greatest of all time ...

Ivanka Trump touts some of the policies of President Trump’s administration and calls for 4 more years during her speech at the 2020 RNC.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the National Chair of Trump Victory Finance Committee, spoke on the first night of the Republican National Convention on Aug. 24, 2020. The party planned a mix of virtual and in-person events in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., for its nominating convention after the coronavirus pandemic interrupted plans for a traditional nominating event.

Donald Trump Jr., Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization, spoke on the first night of the Republican National Convention on Aug. 24, 2020. Trump Jr. praised his father’s response to the virus pandemic , which has killed nearly 170,000 people in the U.S., according to the COVID Tracking Project . He said the coronavirus struck “courtesy of the Chinese Communist Party .” Research shows that the genetic makeup of the virus indicates it could not have been man-made and manufactured in a lab. The party planned a mix of virtual and in-person events in North Carolina and Washington, D.C. , for its nominating convention after the coronavirus pandemic interrupted plans for a traditional nominating event.

Former President Barack Obama delivered a speech on the "state of our democracy " at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus Friday, in what will set his tone for campaigning ahead of the November midterm elections . Today I’m at the University of Illinois to deliver a simple message to young people all over the country: You need to vote, because our democracy depends on it. I hope you'll tune in at 11am CT: https://t.co/34WjNaVAcU — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 7, 2018 The former commander-in-chief is receiving the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government, which will be given to him by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. Obama, who has chimed in from time-to-time to remark on President Trump's words and actions, is expected to address threats to the United States' democracy and the consequences of apathy, and urge fellow Americans to vote this November. The award Obama is receiving is the same one that was bestowed upon the late Sen...