• Kamala Harris delivers speech at Tyre Nichols' funeral

    Kamala Harris delivers speech at Tyre Nichols' funeral

    Feb 01, 2023 11:12 PM EDT

    ... done. He’s gone home,” she said, urging Congress to pass police reform. The Rev. Al Sharpton and Vice President Kamala Harris both delivered impassioned speeches calling on Congress to approve the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a broad package of police reforms that includes a national registry for ...

  • Ethiopians file lawsuit against Meta over hate speech in Tigray war

    Ethiopians file lawsuit against Meta over hate speech in Tigray war

    Dec 14, 2022 04:36 PM EDT

    NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two Ethiopians have filed a lawsuit against Facebook's parent company, Meta, over hate speech they say was allowed and even promoted on the social media platform amid heated rhetoric over their country's deadly Tigray conflict. Former Amnesty International human rights researcher Fisseha Tekle is one ...

  • Twitter, other tech companies slip on removing hate speech, EU review says

    Twitter, other tech companies slip on removing hate speech, EU review says

    Nov 24, 2022 05:27 PM EDT

    ... responsible for content moderation and other crucial tasks. The EU report found Twitter assessed just over half of the notifications it received about illegal hate speech within 24 hours, down from 82% in 2021. Facebook, Instagram and YouTube also took longer, while TikTok was the only one to improve. The ...

  • WATCH: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin salutes veterans in speech on National Mall

    WATCH: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin salutes veterans in speech on National Mall

    Nov 11, 2022 11:53 PM EDT

    U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin thanked veterans for making American "safer and stronger" in a speech under rainy skies at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall Friday. Watch Austin's remarks in the player above. "To all of our veterans, lending your talents to the United States ...

  • Who decides what is acceptable speech on social media platforms?

    Who decides what is acceptable speech on social media platforms?

    Oct 10, 2022 10:40 PM EDT

    He seems to be sort of coming at this issue the way that a lot of the tech platform founders came at it, say, back in 2004, 2005, 2006, this really permissive idea of speech that didn't really take into account the fact that you're going to be ...

  • Key points from Vladimir Putin's call-up speech

    Key points from Vladimir Putin's call-up speech

    Sep 21, 2022 09:08 PM EDT

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued another grave warning to the West after his country's military suffered a series of embarrassing setbacks in Ukraine.

  • Sheryl Lee Ralph delivers rousing speech after winning Emmy for role in Abbott Elementary

    Sheryl Lee Ralph delivers rousing speech after winning Emmy for role in Abbott Elementary

    Sep 13, 2022 10:25 PM EDT

    At the Emmy Awards Monday night, Sheryl Lee Ralph won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the groundbreaking ABC series "Abbott Elementary," which uses humor to take on the issues confronting public education and equity. Geoff Bennett spoke with Ralph last spring for PBS Weekend as part of our arts and culture series, "CANVAS."

  • Read King Charles' full 1st speech to Britain as the new monarch

    Read King Charles' full 1st speech to Britain as the new monarch

    Sep 09, 2022 06:10 PM EDT

    King Charles III made his first address to the nation on Friday since becoming Britain's new monarch after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

  • WATCH: Biden gives speech in Ohio on boosting American manufacturing

    WATCH: Biden gives speech in Ohio on boosting American manufacturing

    Sep 09, 2022 03:18 PM EDT

    President Joe Biden is putting the spotlight on a rare bipartisan down payment boosting U.S. manufacturing as he visits the political battleground state of Ohio, and the groundbreaking of a new Intel computer chip facility.

  • Examining Salman Rushdie's lifelong fight for free speech

    Examining Salman Rushdie's lifelong fight for free speech

    Aug 15, 2022 10:25 PM EDT

    What do you see? Ayad Akhtar: I think, increasingly, we're seeing a diminished support for the freedom of expression and increased concern about the harms that speech can bring. And so, on some level, there's a larger conversation about controlling speech or controlling what it is that's ...