Ruby Robinson got the gift of a lifetime at her graduation from Columbia University’s Engineering School this week. Her father, an Army reservist serving in…
You would think most Americans would be eager to attend a speech when the keynote speaker is Michelle Obama, one of the most popular First…
The Mayor’s Office of Education Initiatives and the Houston Public Library are partnering together with the Graduation Game Plan mentor program. This free program connects students to resources that help prepare them to achieve their academic and career goals. Mentors meet with a small group of students for an hour and a half a week for four […]
Roland Martin talks with Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund about what steps need to be taken to keep black males off…
Nationally syndicated personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary for the Washington Post talks with the Tom Joyner Morning show about how to handle returning 2013 college graduates…
Via Newsone: Our hearts go out to Deonta and Anthony’s mother, Sandra Williams- McGlone who was in the gym with their entire family, waiting for graduation to start, when she received the devastating news. Read more.
It’s going to be a big family dinner for one for Dorian Joyner, Sr. Sunday morning, he will watch his oldest son Dorian Jr graduate from Morehouse College along with him. Dorian Sr. went to Morehouse back in 1984 but never finish. Read More
Via Chron.com: Michael Strahan, former All-Pro defensive end for the New York Giants and co-host with Kelly Ripa of ABC’s “Live with Kelly & Michael Strahan” received an honorary doctorate of humane letters Saturday from his alma mater Texas Southern University. Read More
It’s graduation season and time to salute students moving on to another phase of life. Over the years, I can’t even count how many commencement ceremonies I’ve participated in. The idea, of course, is to provide words of encouragement and even to give the students what’s called a charge — a responsibility, a duty or […]
The most digital generation in history is stepping up to the podium to get their college and high school diplomas. So what graduation gift should you give your capped-and-gowned digerati? It’s hard. An iPod? (Probably passé.) A check? Are Our Kids Thinly Disguised Little Monsters? GPS system. For a graduate heading off to a new […]
About 70 family members and well-wishers filled a seventh floor hospital room Thursday at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri to witness a very special high school graduation. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/28539
The latest figures from Harvard University show a record proportion of minority students admitted for the upcoming fall semester, with 11.8% of the school’s new students being African-American and another 12.1% Latino. Harvard points to its outreach programs that send admissions officers across the country to pursue high-achieving students from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. […]
