What may not have been a traditional graduation speech has now captured the heart and souls of many.
GRIFF has a prayer for high school seniors who not only are not going to be graduating this year, but haven’t told anybody in their families. So these students just have their parents and grandparents and aunties and uncles coming through to the graduating thinking they’re going to see their beloved walk in the graduation. Plus, he & Erica give […]
Watch President Barack Obama deliver one of his final commencement speeches at Howard University Saturday.
The dismal education statistics for young Black men are all too familiar, especially in cities like Camden, New Jersey, where poverty, crime and poor access to…
Seniors gearing up for graduation at Howard University can breathe a little easier now; the Mecca is implementing a new practice that will surely lower…
“NewsOne Now” host Roland Martin loves to offer his words of wisdom every week on the radio and TV One. Well, last week, he gave…
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 […]
BALTIMORE, Md. — After growing up homeless in Baltimore, being diagnosed with leukemia in ninth grade and spending months in hospital, Reggie Evans will walk down the aisle. The Grio reports: After spending about six months in the hospital, Reggie took honors courses and advanced classes, ended up with a GPA above 3.0 and was […]
BALTIMORE, Md. — Ty Hobson-Powell made history Sunday when he walked across the stage as the youngest person to graduate from The University Of Baltimore, completing four years of college in two years. The Baltimore Sun reports: Hobson-Powell gave up a fledgling basketball career when he began college three years ago, commuted more than an […]
