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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…

Extraordinarily talented Dreamville/Roc Nation artist J.Cole is truly in a league of his own and he proved as much yet again by keeping a promise to…

It was the graduation present of a lifetime, when a military mom surprised her son as he received his high school diploma. Steven Turner Jr.…

Thanks to Principal Nancy Gordeuk, this year’s graduation at TNT Academy quickly went viral because of her racially charged rant. Towards the end of her diatribe,…

Amid outcry from the state police union, a New Jersey university has decided to cancel a commencement speech from rapper Common over a song he…

  This week, an American ritual will repeat itself. Something that within the past century has morphed into a rite of passage for armies of…

Can you hear that? No, not the sound of wedding bells awaiting for Kanye West and Kim Kardashian but the subliminal verses Kanye’s dropped over…

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…

  Sean Puffy Diddy Puff Daddy Combs has a new name…Dr. Combs! He received his doctorate in Humanities on Saturday at Howard University graduation. Watch the speech below