"You'd scarce expect one of my age / To speak in public on the stage," began the traditional school declamation exercise.(The Week)(Brief article)

* "You'd scarce expect one of my age / To speak in public on the stage," began the traditional school declamation exercise. Little Autum Ashante, seven years old, is well accustomed to public speaking, as she demonstrated when invited to address a gathering of middle-school children in Peekskill, N.Y. After asking her audience to stand for a pledge, she told the white children to sit down again, as it was to be a segregated pledge. ("I pledge allegiance to my black people ...") Autum then recited a poem of, she claimed, her own composition, titled "White Nationalism Put ...