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While there is a myriad of texts, articles, videos, and more to demonstrate good speeches, there has never been an emphasis on being true to our cultural selves and using the tools of our identities to help make us effective communicators.
Lift Your Voice: Public Speaking in the HBCU Classroom encourages college students of the Black diaspora to approach public speaking situations using their own standpoint. It provides a historical grounding in the art of public speaking and examines the influence of various cultures.
Lift Your Voice: Public Speaking in the HBCU Classroom by Kyle R. Fox and Felicia R. Stewart:
- accentuates the cultural semantics and significance in various public speaking situations.
- highlights ideas and examples with which HBCU students can easily identify.
- maintains and promotes the structure of the essential elements of effective public speaking.
- addresses the challenges of public speaking, with a specific emphasis on the Black community.
- reinforces basic and advanced public speaking skills.
- provides modern presentation techniques that will apply in the HBCU classroom and beyond.
