Friday, May 20, 2022, 11:30 a.m., In-Person Forum
The City Club of Cleveland
In-Person Forum
Jeffrey Nussbaum
Speeches have the power to educate, incite, and inspire. But for almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These “second speeches” provide a tantalizing, sometimes terrifying window into what could have been if not for changes of heart or momentous turns of events. In Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches that Would Have Rewritten History, Jeff Nussbaum presents the most notable speeches that were never heard, from Dwight Eisenhower’s apology for...
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Thursday, May 12, 2022
Our forums sometimes make you mad. Here’s why.
Every now and then there’s a forum we place on the calendar that might make you upset. The speaker is so distasteful that you feel they shouldn’t be heard—not by anyone, and certainly not at the civic forum that you value and rely on. Usually, it’s a speaker of some significance or notoriety. We do this for a reason, and it’s not because we disagree with you or agree with the speaker. The reason we do this is because we think it’s in the best interest of the community and democracy. In 1923 renowned socialist Eugene Debs was one such speaker. Debs had famously been arrested after an anti-war speech in Canton,... read on
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The U.S. Justice Department estimates that there are 14,500 to 17,500 people trafficked into the country every year. Globally, the number of trafficking victims is...
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