The Omega Debate seeks to revive and leverage its history of scholarly debate targeting high school students of color in metro Atlanta to spur creative thought, develop critical thinking skills, improve articulation, and advance research skills while inspiring both participants and audience to act on the subject of the debate.
Within the history of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, debating has been a cornerstone since before its founding. Two of Omega’s Founders, Edgar Amos Love and Frank Coleman, were elected members of the Kappa Sigma Debating Society at Howard University in February 1911 and several other future Brothers, including Founder Love’s brother, William, were members of this society as early as 1909. The foundation in debate extended throughout Omega with Brothers at Fisk, Morehouse, and Lincoln members of their respective debate societies. Most notable, Melvin B. Tolson, professor of English at Wiley College, was the famed debate coach for that school. He was the subject of the 2007 biopic The Great Debaters (Tolson was initiated into Omega while attending Lincoln University in 1921).
Is objectivity in the news gone? Was it ever there to begin with? Should it be the goal of every news
organization? Or has social media made
that impossible? “Objectivity” is
defined by most dictionaries as expressing or using facts without distortion by
personal beliefs, bias, feelings, or prejudice. Is that possible in a diverse,
polarized society? This year’s debate tackles
this complicated topic that has been a hotbed issue for decades.
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