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2023-2024 Leadership Applications!

Want to write for or work at The Extemper’s Bible? Here’s your chance to join!

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The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do about It

In her 2021 book The Authority Gap, former editor at The Times and political correspondent at The Economist Mary Ann Seighart provides insight into the authority gap, explaining why as a society we often undermine women while uplifting men.

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Let’s Talk Equity

Equity is an issue that’s often brushed over in the speech and debate community. In this article, Manushri Malkapurapu dives into some of the barriers that prevent true equity in extemp, before also suggesting some solutions.

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

In his 2014 memoir Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson documents his career dealing with the criminal justice system and its history of unjustly targeting and incarcerating Black Americans.