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Joe Biden gave a speech in Philadelphia, PA on September 20 where he talked about the ongoing Supreme Court controversy after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing. Biden accused Trump & the Republicans of “abuse of power” and asked the Senate to wait until after the election. He also said Trump’s nominee should be withdrawn if he wins. Full transcript here.

TIFF held a Youth for Change virtual event where they interviewed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg & Anishinaabe water activist Autumn Peltier. Read the interview transcript here.

Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. On August 10, 1970, she gave the following speech on the Equal Rights Amendment.

Full transcript of Booker T. Washington’s “The Atlanta Compromise” speech on September 18, 1895.

On April 27th 1961, JFK delivered a speech about “Secret Societies.” The speech was delivered at the American Newspaper Publishers Association in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and is the source of several JFK conspiracy theories. Read the full transcript of the speech right here.

Full transcript of Representative Barbara Jordan’s Keynote Speech at the 1976 DNC on July 12, 1976. She was the first African-American as well as the first woman to deliver a keynote address at a party’s convention.