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As graduation season continues, one college graduate is inspiring us all by getting her degree at the age of 99-years-old & proving it's never too late.

It was the graduation present of a lifetim when a military mom surprised her son as he received his high school diploma. Steven Turner Jr. hadn’t seen his mother since at least October, when she was deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for a nine-month assignment. There was no way she was going to miss this […]

The Georgia principal who chastised “all the Black people” after a handful of individuals prematurely left a graduation ceremony has been terminated, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. After her…

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Thanks to Principal Nancy Gordeuk, this year’s graduation at TNT Academy quickly went viral because of her racially charged rant. The tension began when Gordeuk mistakenly ended the graduation before the Valedictorian was given a chance to speak. After a few of the students and families filed out, Gordeuk went into a complete diatribe against the […]

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Giving a candid and deeply personal commencement speech at Tuskegee University on Saturday, the First Lady of the United States reflected on the emotional toll…

College ain’t for everybody and God bless the child who figures this out and makes their own way through getting a four year or post doctorate degree, obtaining a trade or simply opening their own business right out of high school. Many years ago I attended a New Year’s Eve party in my hometown of […]

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 Afghanistan, made a surprise visit at the ceremony and it brought her to tears. “Congratulations, young lady,” Captain Keith Robinson told his daughter as she walked across the stage. “I […]

Congratulations Dr. Sean Combs! Diddy graced The Yard at Howard University in Washington, DC (May 10) to receive an honorary degree in humanities and deliver the class of 2014 commencement address. “Only this family could take one of its sons who already had three name changes and give him a fourth,” he joked with the crowd.  MUST READ: All […]

Graduating Magna Cum Laude is a fete worth celebrating all its own, but what about when three sisters do it at the same damn time?! That’s exactly what happened with these impressive triplets, Bre’Andria, Cre’Andria and Dre’Andria Thompson! These beautiful look-alikes graduated Magna Cum Laude with BS degrees in Chemistry from Norfolk State University’s Dozoretz […]

// This past August, the Vickie and Maurice McBride both received their PhDs from Capella University. Dr. Vickie McBride graduated with her PhD in K-12 Education and Dr. Maurice McBride in Organizational Management. When she was 13, Vickie got pregnant with Maurice. Vickie managed to continue her education, all the way through college and graduate […]