"Fireside Chats for 2020" commissions artists to deliver short speeches to the American public. Project director seeks pro bono speechwriting help.

"Even as we ask these questions, we know the answer. There is another preparation being demanded of this nation beyond and beside the preparation of weapons and materials of war."

The back porch response of corporate America to Black Lives Matter: Leaders benefit by being surrounded by spouses, sons and daughters—not flunkies and fawners.

"Don’t look for reasons to hope, don’t look for other people to make you hopeful, be those people, create those reasons. Be icons of idealism, be rock gods of activism. Be the new vanguard of anti-cynicism, because there is already another generation coming up behind you that’s growing up even faster than you did, because they had to.”

Performed by James Earl Jones, and presented during the week of the most widely discussed Juneteenth holiday in memory.