April 2

I. Opening Announcements​​

• Remember to email the editor link to your hype presentation on the Wednesday before at noon ​
• Reminder: 2-week grace period for RR9 ends next Tuesday at 11:59pm
• Be ready to choose a rhetor in duos and trios for the final project of the semester (the due date will be extended one week past what is listed on the syllabus)

Things You Might Need

• The Course Syllabus
• The 2026 Hype Presentation Guidelines
• ​Hype Sign-up Sheet
• Angel's Hype Example
• ​Reading Response Guidelines
• African American Oratory in the Legacy of Black Rhetoric​​​​

II. johasle  presents . . .

KendrickLamar by J Galdamez

 III. Madison S.  Presents . . .

IV. African American Oratory
​in the Legacy of Black Rhetoric

OPTION A "What to the Slave is Your 4th of July?" by Frederick Douglass (1852)
Click here for full, written version.

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OPTION B: "How Long, Not Long" by Martin Luther King after Selma March (1965)
Click here for full, written version

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OPTION C: Barbara Jordan, Texas Senator, on Nixon's Impeachment (1972) and DNC (1976)
Click here for full written version of DNC speech.

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OPTION D: Shirley Chisholm Runs for President of USA (1972)
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