Ella Johanknecht admits to an inauspicious start to her debate career. “I’ve been debating since middle school,” said the senior at Anchorage’s West High. “I really used to love arguing with my ...

The speech and debate teams of two historically Black colleges in Atlanta say they experienced and witnessed discriminatory acts by competitors during a recent tournament. Morehouse and Spelman ...

The art of persuasion — and the painstaking preparation for a national competition — is the focus of this moving documentary about high-school students.

For the first time in the history of the Harvard Debate Council, two Black girls from Atlanta have made history as the first Black female duo to win the annual summer debate competition at Harvard ...

The annual state debate tournament held at the beginning of this month marked a first for being hosted in an entirely online venue. It was also a standout event for Woodward Academy. With the ...

ATLANTA — If winning once is great, winning twice in a row is impressive, then what is winning for a third straight time? Atlanta’s “Great Debaters”, a team of Atlanta high school students won the ...

The Sociedad de Debate en Español Cornell, the University’s Spanish debate team, is preparing to showcase its skills on an international stage at an upcoming tournament at Universidad del Rosario in ...

A Georgetown debate team won its first automatic invitation to the national debate championship since 1998. Andrew Markoff (SFS ’14) and Richard Day (SFS ’14), a team of two freshman debaters, learned ...

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY’S WEBSITE. WELL, THOUSANDS OF DEBATE STUDENTS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY ARE RIGHT HERE IN DES MOINES. THEY’RE HERE AS THE CITY HOSTS THE NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE TOURNAMENT ...